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Berlin Wall Crisis

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | 292 words | Copyright

Berlin Wall Crisis a heightened period of tension between the United States and the USSR, after the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev supported the efforts of East Germany's leader to close the sector borders between East and West Berlin, first with barbed wire and then with a concrete wall.

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