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At the end of WW2 the Russians, Americans, French and English had arrived in Berlin. The Russians got into the area first followed by the Western nations, so they claimed land. To settle the problem the Western powers and the Russians agreed that Berlin would be divided into four sections for each nation. The Western nations combined to make West Berlin and West Germany while the Russians took the area that became known as East Berlin and East Germany. This was the start of the cold war. Soon the Russians built the Berlin Wall and stopped all traffic and connection to the Western sections and "checkpoint Charlie" was formed with Western powers on one side and the Russians on the other. The people of East Germany could not freely cross the border or visit family until 1989 when the wall came down.

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