> Construction of which of the following landmarks began in 1961?Considering Notre Dame, Berlin Wall, Great Wall of China, and the Statue ofLiberty, the answer is: The Berlin Wall. In August 1961, East Germany began building a barbed wire and concrete wallbetween East and West Berlin. The wall primarily served to prevent East Germansfrom escaping to the West. The wall stood until November 1989.Photo credit: UC Public Affairs[https://www.ucpublicaffairs.com/home/2019/11/12/30-years-after-the-berlin-wall-came-down-east-and-west-germany-are-still-divided-by-nathan-stoltzfus].The Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of ideological division and suppression ofhuman rights during the Cold War. It was the physical manifestation of the IronCurtain that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. In August of 1961,East Germany began their efforts to stop Westerners from entering theirsocialist state and prevent defections from their own. When World War II came to an end in 1945, the victors came together to splitGermany into four allied occupation zones. East Germany would go to the SovietUnion, while the West went to the United States, Great Britain, and France. Eventhough Berlin was located entirely in the Soviet part of the country, the citywould be split into four sectors in the same way. However, the Soviets weredetermined to remove the Western powers in the city. Despite the economic boomexperienced in the western sector (against the relative poverty of the socialisteastern side), the wall went up in 1961, locking out the Eastern Berliners. In 1989, after years of pressure from world leaders, including U.S. PresidentsJohn F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall[https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/berlin.html]!"), thethawing of the Cold War brought on new considerations to reconnect West and EastBerlin. With celebrations – and mallets to hack down the concrete separation –the East was reunited with the Western world in November of 1989. Learn more about the creation and effect of the Berlin Wall below.