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What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

The Soviet Union's communist empire ended and democracy began coming to Eastern Europe.


The United States and the Soviet Union started fighting battles in Eastern and Western Europe.


The Soviet Union continued to spread communism in Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.


Democracy spread to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union's communist empire strengthened.

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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War.

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