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Bookmark or Share- Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world - BBCIt was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East ...
- Soviet Union - Countries, Cold War & Collapse | HISTORYThe Cold War power struggle—waged on political, economic and propaganda fronts between the Eastern and Western blocs—would persist in various forms until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- Iron Curtain | Definition & Facts | BritannicaIron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West
- Eastern bloc | Definition, Countries, & Map | BritannicaEastern bloc, group of eastern European countries that were aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with the Soviet Union approximately from 1945 to 1990. Members included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
- What Was The Eastern Bloc? - WorldAtlasWhat Was The Eastern Bloc? The concept of the Eastern Bloc is a nebulous one and, therefore, worth taking the time to dismantle and simplify as much as possible. Its formation history and identity spans nearly a hundred years, up until a sudden collapse in the summer of 1990.
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