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  2. Berlin Crisis of 1961 - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Berlin Blockade - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Checkpoint Charlie - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Berlin Crisis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Escape attempts and victims of the inner German border

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    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]

  7. Ich bin ein Berliner - Wikipedia

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    Berlin Wall; Berlin Blockade (1948–1949) Berlin Crisis of 1961 "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963) "Tear down this wall!" (1987) Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present) History of Germany and History of Europe; See also; Timeline of Berlin

  8. West Berlin - Wikipedia

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    The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically separated West Berlin from its East Berlin and East German surroundings until it fell in 1989. [4] On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified , East and West Berlin united, joined the Federal Republic as a Stadtstaat (city-state) and eventually became the capital of Germany again.

  9. History of Berlin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...