A piece of the Berlin Wall is now permanently on display at Laurel Hill Park, plus a mural telling the story of the ...

In the early 1960s, LIFE magazine’s photographers chronicled the construction of the Berlin Wall and, once it was built, its effect on residents living in the newly divided city. The Soviets and ...

making Berlin a symbol of hope and resistance against oppression. Keywords Berlin, Cold War, Iron Curtain, East Germany, West Germany, democracy, isolation, resilience, Berlin Blockade ...

The Berlin airlift, initiated in response to the Soviet blockade of western-controlled sectors of the city in June 1948, is among the most potent symbols of the cold war. The city and Germany had ...

For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War. Erected in haste and torn down in ...

The Cold War which followed World War II ended ... once a border crossing point between East and West Berlin, is now a symbol of unified Germany.

The area was one of three crossing points that divided East and West Berlin and became a symbol of the Cold War. It was the sight of a tense standoff between U.S. and Soviet tanks in October 1961 ...

American histories of the Cold War tend to depict the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the era’s worst depredations. In doing so, however, Americans forget the complexity of the 15-year crisis over the ...

Narrator: After World War Two ... not give up West Berlin, so the blockade was lifted on 12th May 1949. It was a major propaganda victory for the West and Berlin became a symbol of the allies ...