1984 | Compare and Contrast
• 1948: West Berlin, Germany, is blockaded by the Soviets. The Americans begin an airlift to help the stranded Berliners.
1984: The Berlin wall, built in 1961 to keep East Germans from defecting to the West, remains in place.
Today: East and West Germany are reunified, after the Berlin wall was taken down in 1990.
• 1948/49: Mao Tse-tung battles Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist forces, finally defeating them in 1949 and establishing a totalitarian...
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