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Global geopolitical rivalry and ideological competition centered on the United States and Soviet Union from the postwar era to the breakup of the USSR.

Global armed conflict from 1939 to 1945, including war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, mass civilian suffering and major geopolitical change.

Major European theater of World War II fought chiefly between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union from the 1941 invasion until 1945.

Rapid partition and consolidation of European imperial control over most of Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

German officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the Nazi state.

European powers and the United States formalized rules for African colonial claims during the Berlin Conference.

The opening of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of the physical division between East and West Berlin and initiated the end of the divided-city order.

Senior Nazi officials coordinated implementation of the genocidal persecution of European Jews at Wannsee.

Soviet troops captured Berlin during the final weeks of Nazi Germany; the film depicts the collapsing regime in the capital.