start of the Berlin airlift
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expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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The President:
Helmut! I am sitting in a meeting with members of our Congress and am
calling at the end of this historic day to wish you well. Chancellor Kohl:
Things are going very, very well. I am in Berlin. There were one million
people here last night at the very spot where the Wall used to stand-and
where President Reagan called on Mr. Gorbachev to open this gate. Words
can't describe the feeling. The weather is very nice and warm,
fortunately. There were large crowds of young people. Eighty percent
were under thirty. It was fantastic....
Source: Telephone conversation between Chancellor Helmut Kohl of
Germany and President George H. W. Bush, October 3, 1990
This conversation is referring to the-
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end of the Cold War and reunification of Germany
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signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and creation of the Hot
Line