Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: End of Bi-Polarity

Question:

What was symbolized by the Berlin wall?

Options:

Control of the USSR over Berlin

The division between the capitalist and the communist world.

Control of the USA over Berlin

Tensions in Germany

Correct Answer:

The division between the capitalist and the communist world.

Explanation:

The Berlin Wall symbolised the division between the capitalist and the communist world.

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years before its fall in 1989. The Berlin Wall did not mark the beginning of the Cold War; it was built during the Cold War as a physical division between East and West Berlin. The Berlin Wall symbolised the division between the capitalist and the communist world. Built in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin, this more than 150-kilometre-long wall stood for 28 years and was finally broken by the people on 9 November 1989. This marked the unification of the two parts of Germany and the beginning of the end of the communist bloc.