Cold War
The German Democratic Republic
At the end of World War Two the allied divided Germany into four sectors that were controlled by Britain, France,...
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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
On 14th October 1962 a US spy plane flying over Cuba reported the installation of Russian nuclear missile bases. The...
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Hungarian Revolution
Following the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 many European communist countries developed liberal reformist factions. In Hungary the reformist...
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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
At the end of World War Two Germany had been partitioned into four sectors controlled by America, Britain, France and...
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