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 ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War.

Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Wall surrounding West Berlin. 38 Years Later ...

On the night of 9th of November 1989, huge crowds stormed the wall dividing the West and East of the German city of Berlin, after a week of protests. The wall was constructed 28 years earlier to ...