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  WW2 came to an end in Europe.
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  the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.
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  a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries
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  blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city
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  North Korean troops unexpectedly attacked South Korea and
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  Thousands were killed and wounded, and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.
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  He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008.
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  East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West.
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  as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West
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  The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War.