Berlin Crisis of 1961
Cold War incident in divided Berlin
Berlin Crisis of 1961
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 German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition by the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the second attempt by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to change the status of Berlin by demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from the city and stopping the mass exodus of East Germans fleeing to the West. After the failure of his first ultimatum in 1958, Khrushchev renewed his demands at the 1961 Vienna summit, this time challenging the newly inaugurated U.S. president John F. Kennedy. Previously, in 1948 and 1949 Krushchev's predecessor Joseph Stalin had tried and also failed to change the status of Berlin with the Berlin Blockade. When talks broke down and no agreement was reached, in August 1961 East German leader Walter Ulbricht...
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