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Germany emerged at the
end of the Second World War as one of
the focal points of the Cold War as East
and West dug in to prepare for a
potentially even more destructive
confrontation. The Berlin airlift, the
building of the Berlin Wall and the
escalation of the cold war in the 1980's
all kept Germany on the frontline of
events. And the with Mikhail Gorbachev's
philosophies of Glasnost and
Perestroika, the war thawed and with the
fall of the Berlin Wall, people really
believed that the 3rd World War could be
avoided. |
