Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

With the debt brake gone, Berlin can unleash as much as €1-trillion to shore up the military and infrastructure in the coming ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

the Ukrainian president said, referring to the division of Berlin during the Cold War. The 96-mile-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the center of the city from 1961 to 1989, was designed to ...

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Planning to cross the Inner German Border during the Cold War in a gigantic hot-air balloon ... but were hindered by the Berlin Wall. Balloon tells the story of two friends, an electrician and ...

Mr. Sichel, who died Feb. 24 at 102, served as CIA station chief in Berlin and Hong Kong, where he gathered crucial intelligence in the early years of the Cold War. Squaring off against the KGB, “he ...