Why was Berlin so important during Cold War?
Why was Berlin so important during Cold War? The Berlin Wall was important physically, as well as psychologically, because Berlin was the only city that was divided by the Cold War between the Soviet Union and its allies in the Eastern Bloc and the West.
Why was Germany split in two?
Having experienced great losses as a result of German invasions in the First and Second World Wars, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin preferred that a defeated Germany be dismembered and divided so that it could not rise to its former strength to threaten European peace and security again.