It’s a sobering, at times unnerving, glimpse of a period that until recently was considered over and done with. But with the West again aligned against Moscow as President Vladimir Putin’s war ...

conducted surveillance on West Berlin, and had shoot-to-kill orders should they spot an escapee. Over the years, the Wall became a grim symbol of the Cold War. By 1989, many East Germans had had ...

But among all the contingency plans in the files at the State Department, not one dealt with a positive response to a blockade of the border between East and West Berlin. Thus, last week ...

With West Berlin’s population already nervous ... and at least a limited cold-war victory for the Russians. Realism surely demands to know what the U.S. would be getting in return.

Almost certainly, there would never have been a Cold War détente had the Berlin Wall not been built, an act that reduced the threat to West Berlin. Today, the United States is again embroiled in a ...

It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist ... It cut through the middle of the city center and surrounded West Berlin. But not even barbed wire and the ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... In response, Stalin blocked all land borders into West Berlin. This stopped food, medicine and supplies being transported into western ...

The German capital, Berlin, was also divided into West and East halves despite being ... The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant ...

For Frederick Kempe, president of the Atlantic Council, today “Ukraine is the front line of a global struggle,” just as West Berlin was during the Cold War — a reality acknowledged by China ...