Each day they make the trip to West Berlin. ... People scream to each other "the border is closed!" ... For almost a decade, East Germany's 600 mile border has been sealed by barbed wire and twelve foot high electric fence. ... East German troops arived at order points to unload barbed wire, concrete posts, stone blocks, picks, and shovels. ...
The Cold War caused a split between East and West and the United States and Russia competed with each other in every single aspect of life from Space Exploration to Sports. The Cold War almost became a nuclear war at one point when in 1962 the Soviets had begun building nuclear missile in Cuba, which is 90 miles away from the coast of Florida and President Kennedy send ships down to block the Soviets. ... During World War II the Soviets and the US were fight together to stop another country from becoming a dominant power, but in life money, greed and power caused the two to start this war wi...
