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Involved the U.S and Russia. They are strong wealthy countries with large populations and a very strong military.
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Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.
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The holocaust also referred to as the Shoah was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Germany and it's collaborators killed about 6 million Jews and 12 million people all together.
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World War II, which began in 1939 and ended in 1945, was the deadliest and most destructive war in history.
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After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world's strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They had different ideas about economics and government. They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War.
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The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S.
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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic (east germany) joined the federal republic of germany to form the reunited nation of germany
