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2 days ago · Alarmed by the flood of East Germans fleeing to the West through Berlin – over 2.6 million between 1949 and 1961 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the green light for the East German government to close the border and halt the exodus. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a makeshift barbed wire barrier ...
5 days ago · During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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6 days ago · History. Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift. In June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off West Berlin from the rest of Allied-controlled Germany, prompting the launch of the Berlin Airlift. Last updated: May 22, 2024 1:40 pm. By Hrothsige Frithowulf.
1 day ago · The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the last major incident in the Cold War regarding the status of Berlin and post–World War II Germany. By the early 1950s, the Soviet approach to restricting emigration movement was emulated by most of the rest of the Eastern Bloc . [261]
5 days ago · The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Symbol of the End of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, stood as a stark symbol of the ideological divide between East and West during the Cold War. For nearly three decades, it not only separated a city but also families, friends, and a nation.
4 days ago · Annotation. On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a major speech on the Cold War with the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall as a back drop. Since the end of World War II, Berlin had been one of the main symbols of the Cold War.
