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How did the Berlin Wall come to represent the struggle of the Cold War? In other words,

explain how East and West, both the city and the ideologies, were reflected in the construc-
tion of the Berlin Wall.

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When Ronald Reagan addressed these words to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in June of 1987, few believed that just two years later the Berlin Wall would actually be dismantled. It seemed like a permanent fixture, symbolizing the irreparable divide between the Cold War powers. But by 1990, all but a few traces of the wall were gone.

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