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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Between 1961 and 1989, the German Democratic Republic constructed, fortified and guarded the 155-kilometre Berlin Wall, a concrete ...