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.
  It was a wall that divided East Germany  and West Germany.   The Berlin wall is, of corse as you can tell, a wall. It separated  east Berlin from west Berlin. It was built in 1961/62.  It was a wall separating Germany into two parts East, and West  Berlin.East controlled by Soviet Union and the west controlled by  United States, France, and Great Britain. Answer   The Berlin Wall divided West Berlin from East Germany. This is important--it ran all the way around town, and people escaped into West Berlin from all directions. You only heard about the people who escaped from East Berlin.