Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall ... by the Soviet army and in the Truman Doctrine, the US had said they would defend people being oppressed by communism. Which side had the upper ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

Those barricades would eventually come to be known as the Berlin Wall ... In effect, the American, French and British sectors were West Berlin, and the Soviet sector was East Berlin.

D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet, American, British and French troops. There he documented the hardships of Berliners' daily lives.

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious ... Lucius Clay, the military governor of the American zone of occupied Germany wrote: "When the order of the Soviet Military Administration to close ...

In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as “a moment ... from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and North Africa, were able to ...

This was a result of a 1945 World War II peace agreement among the Allies — including the Soviet ... special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at ...

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall ... space. American President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union.