The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest international debating tournament and one of the largest annual international...
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Queen's Debating Union is the debating society of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was founded as Canada's first debating society in...
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region, and the sixth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Berlin was built along the banks of the Spree river, which flows into the Havel...
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Debattierclub Stuttgart (redirect from Stuttgart Debating Union)
(DCS), also known as the Stuttgart Debating Union, is the debating society of the University of Stuttgart. It holds debates in both German and English. It...
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The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the...
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Kingdom, and the Soviet Union decided to divide Germany into three occupation zones and to establish a special area of Berlin, which was occupied by the...
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Presidential Debates". CNN. Archived from the original on March 8, 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2007. Mondale, Walter. "1984: There You Go Again... Again / Debating Our...
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1936 Summer Olympics (redirect from 1936 Berlin Games)
Brundage won the debate, convincing the Amateur Athletic Union to close a vote in favor of sending an American team to the Berlin Olympics. Mahoney's...
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German reunification (category East Germany–Soviet Union relations)
wanted to gain West Berlin and make the unified Berlin its capital. The Western Allies and West Germany rejected the Soviet Union's idea of neutral reunification...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (German: Berlin-Krise) was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War concerning the status of...
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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the...
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The Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (House of Deputies) (German: [ˈʔapɡəʔɔʁdnətn̩ˌhaʊs] ) is the state parliament (Landtag) of Berlin, Germany according to the...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the...
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Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (German: Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg „Willy Brandt“), (IATA: BER, ICAO: EDDB), (German pronunciation: [beːʔeːˈʔɛɐ̯]...
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The Berlin Declaration (German: Berliner Erklärung/Deklaration) of 5 June 1945 or the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany, had the governments...
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Tear down this wall! (redirect from Reagan's Berlin Wall speech)
called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961. The following day, The New York Times carried...
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known in English as the Berlin Olympic Stadium or simply the Olympic Stadium, is a sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was originally...
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Cold War (redirect from Confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union)
by 1961. That June, the Soviet Union issued a new ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Allied forces from West Berlin. The request was rebuffed, but...
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The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The Union has a total...
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until the early 1990s, with the authorization and financial support of the Berlin Senate, Kentler placed several neglected youth aged 13 to 15 as foster children...
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The history of Berlin starts with its foundation in the 12th century. It became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1237, and later of Brandenburg-Prussia...
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met in the Reichstag building in Berlin. The Bundestag also operates in multiple new government buildings in Berlin around the neo-renaissance house and...
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part of the European Union, Turkey is one of the EU's main partners and both are members of the European Union–Turkey Customs Union. Turkey borders two...
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1945: The Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union restored by the verdict of the Landgericht (Berlin court), resulting in two church bodies–one Nazi-recognised...
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Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten...
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The battle in Berlin was an end phase of the Battle of Berlin. While the Battle of Berlin encompassed the attack by three Soviet fronts (army groups)...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (German: [bɛʁˈliːn ʔalɛkˈsandɐˌplats]), originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part West German crime television miniseries, set in...
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The European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are two main treaty-based Western organisations for cooperation between member...
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Zollverein (redirect from German Customs Union)
The Zollverein (pronounced [ˈtsɔlfɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪn]), or German Customs Union, was a coalition of German states formed to manage tariffs and economic policies...
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