Berlin crisis of 1961

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Brandenburg Gate

Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin

Learn about the U-2 incident and the collapse of the 1960 Paris summit

When was the Berlin Wall built?

Witness the creation and collapse of the Berlin Wall separating East Germany and West Germany

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Berlin crisis of 1961: Media

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Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin

Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin

Learn about the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948–49 and the U.S. and British...

Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

Learn about the U-2 incident and the collapse of the 1960 Paris summit

Learn about the U-2 incident and the collapse of the 1960 Paris summit

“Summit Crisis,” a newsreel about the U-2 Incident and the collapse of the 1960 Paris...

Video: Universal Newsreel/Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)

When was the Berlin Wall built?

When was the Berlin Wall built?

Learn about the building of the Berlin Wall, which closed off access to West Berlin...

Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail WORTH/AP/REX/Shutterstock.com

Witness the creation and collapse of the Berlin Wall separating East Germany and West Germany

Witness the creation and collapse of the Berlin Wall separating East Germany and West Germany

The Berlin Wall.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Brandenburg Gate

Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate, as seen through a barbed-wire barrier that represented the...

John Waterman—Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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