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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 Crisis of 1958–1959 was a crisis over the status of West Berlin during the Cold War. It resulted from efforts by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to react strongly against American nuclear warheads located in West Germany, and build up the prestige of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany .
By 1961, 1.65 million people had fled to the west. [31] Fearful of the possible consequences of this continued outflow of refugees, and aware of the dangers an East German collapse would present to the Eastern Bloc, Ulbricht pressured Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in early 1961 to stop the outflow and resolve the status of Berlin. [32]
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]
4 June: Berlin Crisis of 1961 begins. 13–15 August: Berlin Wall construction begins between East Berlin and West Berlin. [42] [43] 19–20 August: U.S. vice president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin [52] 28 August: Amrumer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. Hansaplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. Kurfürstendamm (Berlin U-Bahn ...
Berlin Crisis of 1961, a part of the Second Berlin Crisis Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Berlin Crisis .
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 ...
During the crisis KGB prepared an elaborate subversion and disinformation plan "to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the U.S. and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin". On 1 August 1961 this ...