The Berlin Wall<span>: The </span>Fall<span> of the </span>Wall<span>. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East </span>Berlin's<span> Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.</span>
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Over the next two and a half years, US forces captured the Gilbert Islands (Tarawa and Makin), the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein and Eniwetok), the Mariana Islands (Saipan, Guam, and Tinian), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. With each island taken from the Japanese, the United States moved closer to Japan.
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