THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Launching of SPUTNIK
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Berlin Airlift
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Destruction of Berlin Wall
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Berlin Wall remained in place until November 9, 1989, when the border between East and West Berlin was reopened and the wall itself was finally dismantled.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fall of the Berlin Wall, on the night of 9 November 1989, marked the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-5: -Berlin crisis of 1961, Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. It culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.