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 United States and the wartime allies that later formed NATO militarily controlled the West, while the Soviet Union ... soldiers and police started to build the main barrier of the Berlin Wall ...

During a speech to a crowd of about 150,000 people in West Berlin, he pledged that the United States would defend ... leaving behind large gaps in the Wall. Border soldiers began dismantling ...

At one point, 1,700 people a day sought refugee status by crossing ... Germany reunified. The Soviet Union followed suit, and today the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a symbol of the end ...

After the victorious Allies divided up Germany at the end of the Second World War the capital Berlin lay wholly in territory occupied by the Soviet Union ... wall surrounding us. The British ...

To find out why the wall ... the United States and the Soviet Union. They split the country up into four zones, each one controlled by a different country. Germany's capital Berlin was also ...

The U.S. soldier has become a symbol of one of the most important moments in modern history: the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ... and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin was unveiling a statue of Ronald Reagan Friday on a site overlooking the location of the former president's iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin ...

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 ...