What caused the Berlin crisis?
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.