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An East German college student when the Berlin Wall came down (Click photo for video clip)
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An American soldier on the final patrol of the Berlin Wall (Click photo for video clip)
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President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall 1987. Video source:
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“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” |
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"At the Potsdam Conference (July 17 to August 2, 1945) the Big Three Allied powers convened again to clarify and implement agreements reached at Yalta earlier that year.
"The players had changed significantly: Harry Truman had succeeded FDR, and before the conference was over, the newly-elected Clement Attlee would replace Winston Churchill.
"Potsdam divided postwar Germany into four occupation zones, administered by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, and reorganized Germany's institutions and economy.
"After the war, however, the goals of Potsdam were increasingly undermined by the tensions and suspicions of the gathering Cold War."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ episodes/01/documents/potsdam.html |
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