Cause Of The Berlin Crisis
On June 15th 1961, Walter Ulbricht, Leader of the GDR, famously said “Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" ("Nobody intends to put up a wall”) however two months later the Berlin wall was up and at the climax of U.S, U.S.S.R political international relations.
What began as one could describe as a “shotgun marriage” of the world’s two super powers, America and the Soviet Union, soon escalated out of error and miscalculation through both sides to a situation in which the world was put on the brink of a global nuclear catastrophe. This act would eventually cost America eight trillion dollars, affect the lives of nearly 100,000, ruin many others and lead America into the true horrors of south East Asia.
America and the Soviet Union’s cooperation to defeat Nazi Germany during World War Two was always an alliance of convenience for the common good, and as the end of the war grew closer it only “magnified the growing distrust each great power harboured about......
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