The cold war was a number of battles and disagreements that lasted for 44 years, starting in1945, or post World War Two. The Cold War started with the Yalta conference. This was a meeting of ;Winston Churchill from England, Franklin D. Roosevelt representing the United States, and Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union's leader. <Tab/>The subjects of the talk were; German war reparations, the entry of Soviet forces into Japan, the dividing …showed first 75 words of 574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 574 total…reduce bad publicity, the East Germans said they would allow movement from the two sectors. Yet, during the twenty years from 1961 to 1981 there were only 37,800 cases of people being let through, and there were 100 reports of people shot trying to climb it.<Tab/><Tab/> <Tab/>Finally, during November 1989 the border was opened again. And nearly a year later on October 3 1990, Germany was reunited.