What was the Berlin Crisis of 1961?

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Answer 1

During the 1950s a steady outflow of refugees from the Soviet occupation zone to the West consisted primarily of young people of working age. By 1950 some 1.6 million had migrated to the western zones. Between 1950 and 1961, the refugee flow continued at a rate of 100,000 to 200,000 annually.

In November 1958, Soviet Premier Khrushchev issued an ultimatum giving the Western powers six months to agree to withdraw from Berlin and make it a free, demilitarized city.

By the early summer of 1961, East German President Walter Ulbricht apparently had persuaded the Soviets that an immediate solution was necessary and that the only way to stop the exodus was to use force. This presented a delicate problem for the Soviet Union because the four-power status of Berlin specified free travel between zones and specifically forbade the presence of German troops in Berlin. Although it is not known who made the actual decision to erect the Berlin Wall, it is generally accepted that overall operations were directed by Marshal Ivan Konev, commander in chief of the GSFG. Apparently Konev appointed Major General Martin Blek of the NVA as the operational commander.

As the confrontation over Berlin escalated, on 25 July President Kennedy requested an increase in the Army's total authorized strength from 875,000 to approximately 1 million men, along with increasse of 29,000 and 63,000 men in the active duty strength of the Navy and the Air Force. Additionaly, he ordered that draft calls be doubled, and asked the Congress for authority to order to active duty certain ready reserve units and individual reservists.

The Berlin Crisis saw US Army troops facing East German Army troops in a stand-off, until the East German government backed down. The crisis ended in the summer of 1962 and the personnel returned to the United States. President Kennedy who visited the city in June 1963 and said:

"All free men,
wherever they may live,
are citizens of Berlin.
Therefore, as a free man,
I take pride in the words
'Ich bin ein Berliner'."

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The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (4 June – 9 November 1961) was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. The U.S.S.R. provoked the Berlin Crisis with an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin—culminating with the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. At one point, Soviet and Free world tanks faced each other and both sides had orders to shoot if fired upon. Western (Free World) forces did not leave Berlin and the city remained divided until the Soviet Union collapsed and Germany was reunited while President Regan was in office.

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Berlin Crisis

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The West Berlin sector was much more successful than the East Berlin sector and people were leaving the East Berlin side in droves. In order to stop the migration, the East Berlin government, sponsored by the U.S.S.R built the wall around West Berlin to keep the EAST Berliners IN and not to keep the WEST Berliners out.

History has shown that wall didn't work any better than the great wall of China or this stupidity the Republicans want to build on the Mexican border... WALL'S DON'T WORK... but, since Americans don't know history... their own or anyone elses... I suppose we will have a worthless wall to rip down at some point in the future... JUST LIKE IN BERLIN.

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What was the Berlin Crisis of 1961?
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The USSR installing the Berlin Wall around West Berlin to keep East German refugees from seeking freedom in the west.

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It was the east german govenment that caused it they built a wall to spot east Germany citizens from leaving to go to west germany they also tried to keep goods fron going into west germany and starve the west germans,the usa kept berlin alive by airlifting food and other items to west germany

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Yea...what ddey65 said. The wall went up in Nov. 61 (when I was born, and came down on my birthday. Pretty cool. I've got a peice.

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