Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls ...

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

Reviewed By Pat Toensmeier Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth By Frederick Kempe Berkeley Books, 2011 579 pp.; $29.95 The Berlin Wall symbolized the Cold War.

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, see how National Geographic reported from the city as East German officials began dividing it. November 7, 2019 “When we first arrived in Berlin ...

On the 50th anniversary of its construction, Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council and a former Wall Street Journal staffer, delivers a definitive history of the Berlin Wall. For years, ...

Berlin, Germany, 1961: This Berlin dad has his hands full, between answering the questions of Communist border guards who are checking his papers and keeping an eye on two restless children. Looking ...

Berlin, Germany, September 1961: Staff Sgt. Dallas A. Pinckney, center, of Tallahassee, Fla., stands at the front of the 2nd Battle Group Honor Guard that he was assigned to organize after arriving in ...

This story originally published on Nov. 10, 1989. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they ...

Berlin — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival as the ...

On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...