Rescuing Americans from East Berlin William J. Dyess, a native of Troy, Alabama, and a University of Alabama graduate, joined…
Giving President Kennedy the most famous line in his Berlin speech Sometimes securing relationships with our allies comes down to…
A U.S. army tank manned by a defecting soldier crashed straight through a Berlin Wall checkpoint manned by Russian troops.…
The summer of 1961 was fraught with tensions between Moscow and Washington. Berlin, which had been a Cold War flash…
Throughout the Cold War, Berlin was one of the main battlegrounds for the psychological warfare between the United States and the…
Beginning in April 1948, the USSR blocked Western Allies’ access to Berlin as a means of protesting the introduction of…
In the early years of the Cold War, Berlin repeatedly became the focal point of tension between the U.S. and…
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy stood in front of some half a million people in West Berlin…
On August 13, 1961, Berlin woke up to a shock: the East German Army had begun construction on the infamous…
At the end of World War II, Germany was partitioned into four separate areas, each controlled by the four allied…