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1 day ago · The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones.
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The collapse of many European democracies after World War I...
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1 day ago · As relations continued to deteriorate, Noriega appeared to shift his Cold War allegiance toward the Soviet bloc, soliciting and receiving military aid from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Libya. [17] U.S. military planners began preparing contingency plans to invade Panama.
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2 days ago · People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989) The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War.
2 days ago · Hear about life during the Cold War on a tour of the Berlin Wall Memorial. See symbolic sites of protest & unity like Alexanderplatz & Oberbaum Bridge. Learn about the era’s cloak-and-dagger espionage and ideological warfare. See the remains of the Berlin Wall, the East Side Gallery, and Checkpoint Charlie.
5 days ago · By the time the Cold War ended, some 900,000 troops—nearly half of them from six countries (United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada, and the Netherlands)—were stationed in West Germany.
- David G. Haglund
4 days ago · During the 1990s, massive construction projects transformed central Berlin. High-rise commercial construction in the Potsdamer Platz, on the site of the former wall, restored its role as a bustling urban centre, while hotel and retail construction on Friedrichstrasse renewed its place as one of the city’s showpieces.
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4 days ago · The Cold War lasted for almost a half-century, from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s. The conflict’s origins were deep and complex, but the root cause of this persistent hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union was ideology.
