The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de MÃ©xico) is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba.
Confidence votes 57.9K. In many ways life in East Germany, like in most Eastern Bloc countries, was drab and dreary-and of course regulated by the state. The economy was not very well geared to consumers.The essentials of life (food, housing, basic clothing, public transport) were cheap.onfidence votes 57.9K. In many ways life in East Germany, like in most Eastern Bloc countries, was drab and dreary-and of course regulated by the state. The economy was not very well geared to consumers.
In Berlin, the section of the iron curtain dividing West from East Germany took the form of the Berlin Wall, a long concrete wall separating Berlin into democratic and Communist parts; many East Germans lost their lives trying to escape over the wall to the West.