Question

When the bitterly fought World War II ended in Europe in May, 1945, scores of cities of Hitler’s Third Reich were in ruins and the rest of the country was desolate. Fourteen years later, the Nazi regime’s successor in the eastern part of the country – the German Democratic Republic (GDR) – added to the ravaged landscape another eyesore: a scar called The Berlin Wall. It immediately became a major flash point of the Cold War.

A hideous testimony to the total failure of Europe’s most rigid Soviet-style dictatorship, the Wall separated two halves of pre-war Germany, each of which became a state in 1951.

The bigger half, west of the Wall, combined the former American, British and French occupation zones into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). It was a democratic country closely allied with the U.S. and Western Europe. GDR, established in the Red Army-occupied Soviet zone, was a Moscow satellite, run under Soviet tutelage by the East German Communist Party.

The Berlin Wall, which was built by GDR in 1959, consisted of two parallel-running, 97 mile-long, 12 foot-high concrete enclosures with 116 watchtowers and 20 bunkers for the border guards. With barbed wire extensions at each end and a so-called “death strip” between the outer enclosure and the West German border, the complex effectively made East Germany – at first, a country of 18.3 million people – into a prison.

hat did the Berlin Wall do to the city of Berlin?

It divided the city into an Allies-supported half and a Soviet-supported half.

It turned both West and East Germany into a prison controlled by the Soviets.

The high walls with barbed wire divided the city into two halves controlled by the Soviets.

It gave full control of the city to the Americans and British.

Answer 1

It divided the city into an Allies-supported half and a Soviet-supported half.

The passage states the Wall separated the city into two halves—one allied with the U.S./Western powers and the other under Soviet control.