Berlin Crisis

By dabeave2013

  • Nikita Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht

    Nikita Khrushchev and Walter Ulbricht
    they met
  • Period: to

    Berlin Crisis

  • Khrushchev

    Khrushchev
    created a new crisis when he reissued his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany

  • 2 months before the Berlin wall started to be built

    2 months before the Berlin wall started to be built
    First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and Staatsrat chairman Walter Ulbricht stated "No one has the intention to erect a wall."

  • President John F. Kennedy

    President John F. Kennedy
    Makes a speech about the NATO countries.

  • reaction to President Kennedy's speech

    reaction to President Kennedy's speech
    Khrushchev had a plan to seal off West and East Berlin with a concrete wall.

  • Berlin border

    Berlin border
    Between West and East Berlin is sealed off with wall.