sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, permanently dividing Germany
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 began with the Soviet Union building a wall between East and West Berlin. The Soviets shut off access to West Berlin. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift and the crisis was resolved.
the 1958 Berlin Crisis developed when Nikita Khrushchev demanded that the western powers pull all of their forces out of Berlin. This caused a crisis regarding the ownership of the city and resulted in the birth of the Berlin Wall.
Nikita Khrushchev
The Berlin crisis. Stalin sought to submit Berlin to Soviet rule by by closing off all roads leading to Berlin from the west and starving it . The Western Allies however organized a huge airlift into Berlin to supply the Berlin people with everything necessary. When Stalin found he had been outmaneuvered, he chose not to escalate the conflict but to lift the blockade of Berlin.
The Berlin Blockade was started when the Soviets blocked off the access roads to the city of West Berlin, which is surrounded by Soviet occupied East Germany. This was done in response to the secret monetary reforms being introduced by the 3 countries (USA, Great Britain, France) occupying West Germany.
Cold War politics between, in the media oversimplification, Khrushchev on the Soviet Side and Kennedy on the US and Western side ( Ich Bin ein Berliner- I am a Berliner!) went the slogan. the crisis ultimately culminated in the erection and fortification of the now-defunct Berlin wall. While Berlin was a divided city since the end of War II (and there were separate US, British, French, and Soviet sectors, the infamous wall was not actually erected until after l96l. Thus the Berlin WALL proper did not figure in the Berlin airlift in the late forties.
The crisis started when in 1948 the Soviet Union tried to effectively get the whole of Berlin under its control. Stalin hoped to achieve this by closing to the Western powers all roads and waterways leading to Berlin, making Berling totally dependent for its food and all its other necessities from the Soviets. The Western powers circumvented the Soviet blockade by starting an airlift to Berlin, providing in well over 200,000 flights its citizens with food and supplies. The Soviets were forced by its success to lift the blockade in 1949.
The Berlin Blockade was the Soviet Union's attempt to bring all of Berlin under communist control. They closed the roads, rail lines and water routes into Berlin to attempt to starve out the population. They didn't count on the Allies supplying Berlin by air.
The Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis were both situations that defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet was convinced that since Kennedy did nothing to stop the building of the wall that he would also do nothing about the placement of missiles in Cuba.
In 1961 the Soviet Union attempted to take over West Berlin.
The premier of the USSR and leader of the Communist party was Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), who was in power from 1953 to 1964.