The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

(Reuters) - Following are key facts about the Berlin Wall, which was erected beginning in the early hours of August 13, 1961 and breached on November 9, 1989. WHY DID EAST GERMANY NEED A WALL? -- ...

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War. Why have sticks become a thing? We asked the guys who sparked a trend. NATO ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as “Barbed Wire Sunday,” marking a peak in the era of the Cold War. It felt like a ...

User-Created Clip August 3, 2019 2012-01-07T10:09:22-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b17/20120107101109003_hd.jpg50th Anniversary Washington DC National Archives ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans as it probably did to the whole world. How has this historic moment come about?

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...

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