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the Red Army was a well-equipped and well-led army that had got very used to victory.
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Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “..an iron curtain has descended on Europe”
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Russia ended the blockade of Berlin.
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The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki elected leader of the Polish government – the first eastern bloc country to become a democracy
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The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended