Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2018

This dissertation focuses on U.S. Army forces in Berlin from 1945 to 1994 and on broader issues of U.S. and NATO policy and strategy for the Cold War.It seeks to answer two primary questions: Why did the U.S. officials risk war over a location everyone agreed was militarily untenable, and how did they construct strategies to defend it?Much of the Berlin literature looks at the city only during the two crises there-the Soviet blockade in 1948 and 1949 and Moscow's periodic ultimatum between 1958