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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...
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  • Berlin Crisis may refer to: Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949 Second Berlin Crisis (1958–1963) Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 Berlin Crisis of 1961, a part of...
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  • and escalated into a major conflict over building the Berlin Wall in 1961. See Berlin Crisis of 1961. Between 1945 and 1950, over 1.5 million people emigrated...
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    sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated...
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    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating...
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    blockade 1949 East German State Railway strike Berlin Crisis of 1958-1959 Berlin Crisis of 1961 A fleet of 104 varied transports from 25 civilian companies...
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    Felix L. Sparks (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    including recall to active duty for several months during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Sparks was promoted to brigadier general in 1968 and assigned as...
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    Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2022)
    was short-lived, though it was reactivated for service during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the Vietnam War, when it flew more than 5,000 combat sorties...
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    enter East Berlin through a checkpoint right in the station.[citation needed] Berlin Crisis of 1961 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing Berlin Brigade History...
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  • Iran crisis (1946–1947) Berlin Blockade (1948–1949) Berlin Crisis of 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Pueblo incident (1968) Damansky Island Crisis (1969)...
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    impression of Kennedy as weak, which to him was confirmed by the President's response during the Berlin Crisis of 1961, particularly to the building of the Berlin...
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    Checkpoint Charlie (category Berlin Wall)
    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...
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  • Heinz Schäfer (category People from Berlin)
    significant European events of the Cold War, the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. On 27 October 1961, Soviet and US forces confronted...
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    Revolution of 1956 and the Suez Crisis of that same year, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Vietnam War of 1964–1975...
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    history of Berlin starts with its foundation in the 12th century. It became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1237, and later of Brandenburg-Prussia...
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    fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction...
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    "ending the Berlin Crisis in 1961". Later, on p. 321, he mentioned "the 1961–62 Berlin crisis." There is a Wikipedia article on "Berlin Crisis of 1961". I therefore...
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  • just before the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961 to that wall’s demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008)...
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    Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last...
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  • for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961. The following day, The New York Times carried...
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    Minutes, in: Age of Minority. Toronto 2013, ISBN 978-1-77091-194-9. Germany portal List of deaths at the Berlin Wall Berlin Crisis of 1961 Eastern Bloc emigration...
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    Schießbefehl (category Cold War history of Germany)
    under threat of prison sentences up to three years. The construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 saw the effective illegalization of Republikflucht...
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    World War III (category Theories of history)
    risked a Soviet response. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was a political-military confrontation between the armed forces of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. at Checkpoint...
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    During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, Nicholson was called up for several months of extended active duty, and he was discharged at the end of his enlistment...
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  • after two performances. The show then premiered at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin, before touring Switzerland at the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, Theaterhaus...
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  • escalation of the Berlin Crisis of 1961. However, Kennedy's policies also led to implementing the Bay of Pigs invasion and escalation of the Vietnam War...
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  • the U.S. Air Force and was called up as a reservist during the Berlin Crisis of 1961, before being employed by his stepfather's business for a brief...
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  • The Greater Berlin Act (German: Groß-Berlin-Gesetz), officially Law Regarding the Creation of the New Municipality of Berlin (German: Gesetz über die Bildung...
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  • LIVE OAK (planning group) (category History of Berlin)
    during the next Berlin Crisis of 1961, culminating in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. West German planners...
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    Chris Gueffroy (category Deaths at the Berlin Wall)
    List of deaths at the Berlin Wall Berlin Crisis of 1961 Baron, Udo. "Chris Gueffroy". Berlin Wall Memorial. NBC News Article, Victims of the Berlin Wall...
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