Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Building of the Berlin Wall (1961)
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13 Aug 1961 — Overnight, barbed wire seals the last open door between the blocs; concrete follows. A state walling its own people in ends the Berlin crisis — by admitting everything.
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- Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall (chapter 5 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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