Cold War

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    Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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    NATO

    the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION was created in April 1949.
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    Race for H-Bomb

    World War II's end signified the beginning of the race to develop a weapon even more potent than the atomic bomb: the hydrogen bomb.
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    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin