BERLIN CRISIS

At the end of World War II Berlin former capital of the Third Reich was a divided city in a divided country The wartime Alliesthe United States Great Britain France and the Soviet Unionoriginally intended Berlins division as a symbol of Germanys defeat Within 3 years however Berlin was transformed from the capital of tyranny to an island of freedom a symbol not of Germanys defeat but of the emerging Cold War The Berlin problem was an accident the result of bad planning and Cold War tensions On the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and a victim of the inability of the East and West to agree on German unification Berlin was caught in a recurring cycle of crisis and resolution pitting the legality of Western rights against the reality of Soviet power In fact the history of Berlinthe Berlin Blockade the East Berlin uprising the Berlin Quadripartite Agreement and the rise and fall of the Berlin Wallreflects the history of the Cold War itself

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