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Hitler, without consulting his Italian and Japanese allies, concluded a pact of friendship and nonaggression with the Soviet Union.
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German troops invaded Norway, and Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the small Norwegian National Socialist (Nasjonal Samling, or National Union) party immediately proclaimed a “national government.”
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Quisling continued to serve the Nazi occupation forces, and he was named “minister president”
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The Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army.
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The Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead
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North Korea invaded U.S. supported South Korea
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In the United States, President Eisenhower had to make allowance for the risk of escalation and the hazards of direct nuclear confrontation with the Soviets.
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death of Stalin
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Nikita Khrushchev, the new First Secretary of the CPSU, developed a policy of peaceful coexistence.
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The first tangible consequence of the new Soviet policy was the agreement on Austria.
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Three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, with the last prisoner returning from the USSR in 1956
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the Cold War reached its peak in the early 1960s
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The construction of the Berlin Wall in the summer of 1961 closed the last crossing point between West and East.
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A confrontation that brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.
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The famous ‘red telephone’ was established between Washington and Moscow and the two Great Powers opened discussions on limiting the arms race.
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The United States was finding it increasingly difficult to finance its global military presence, and its growing involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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Willy Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the West German Chancellor “for his policy of reconciliation between old enemy countries”.
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Both Germanies were admitted as full members of the United Nations
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West Germany, unlike Sweden, the Netherlands and Britain, has overcome its oil shortage this winter without rationing or electricity blackouts.
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The Cold War began to break down in the late 1980s during the administration of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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The party’s central concerns have been environmental protection through the conservation of scarce resources and the decentralization of power.
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Libyan agents detonated a bomb at the La Belle discotheque, a nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during the Cold War.
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collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989
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was an electronic music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany,
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Treaty 2 + 4, the international founding act of reunified Germany, was drawn up. The Federal Republic and the GDR participated in it,
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Germany invested over two trillion marks in the rehabilitation of the former East Germany, helping it to transition to a market economy and cleaning up the environmental degradation
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The Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, giving rise to 15 newly independent nations, including a Russia with an anticommunist leader.