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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 the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Blockade (24 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On 26 June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin, the same day he gave his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech. [2]
In 1961, 8,507 people fled across the border, most of them through West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall that year reduced the number of escapees by 75% to around 2,300 per annum for the rest of the decade. The Wall changed Berlin from being one of the easiest places to cross the border, from the East, to one of the most difficult. [1]
Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949; Second Berlin Crisis (1958–1963) ... Berlin Crisis of 1961, a part of the Second Berlin Crisis This page was last edited on ...
1 October 1961: Van Nuys MAP, CA: 31 August 1962: Berlin Crisis: C-97 Stratofreighter; assigned to 146th ATW; Augmented MATS airlift capability 197th Tactical Fighter Squadron: Arizona: 1 November 1961: West Germany: 15 August 1962: Berlin Crisis: Deployed to Ramstein AB; F-104A Starfighters; Assigned to 161st TFG 7108th Tactical Wing ...
Berlin in the Cold War: Volume 2: The Berlin Wall 1959‒1961 (2021) MacDonogh, Giles . Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society (1999) McKay, Sinclair. Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century (2022) excerpt, popular history 1919 to 1989. Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's ...
The problem with cross-border commuters (German, Grenzgänger) in the Berlin area was a result of the political separation of East-and West Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. It resulted from the affiliations of the municipalities to two different currencies; East Berlin districts would use the East German mark (Mark der DDR), and West ...