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 ...
Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls ...
Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled Background—Berlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it ...
Reviewed By Pat Toensmeier Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth By Frederick Kempe Berkeley Books, 2011 579 pp.; $29.95 The Berlin Wall symbolized the Cold War.
The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...
This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sept. 16, 1961. It is republished unedited in its original form. The photographs accompanying the article here were not originally ...
On the 50th anniversary of its construction, Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council and a former Wall Street Journal staffer, delivers a definitive history of the Berlin Wall. For years, ...
Berlin, Germany Nov. 1961: American troops enjoying a leisurely lunch atop a tank in the Friedrichstrasse bivouac area of Berlin Command’s Company F, 40th Armor provide a bit of reassurance for local ...
On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...
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