Berlin Crisis of 1961

The Berlin Crisis of 1961 () was an event in the Cold War. It was between United States, West Germany, and the rest of NATO against the Soviet Union, East Germany, and the rest of the Warsaw Pact. It led to the city being divided into two parts and to to the Berlin Wall being built.

 Related pages
 Nikita Khrushchev
 Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
 Presidency of John F. Kennedy
 Berlin Wall

Further reading
 Barker, Elisabeth. “The Berlin Crisis 1958–1962.” International Affairs 39#1 (1963), pp. 59–73. online. 
 Beschloss, Michael. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963 (1991) online
 Carmichael, Neil. "A Brief History of the Berlin Crisis of 1961" (US National Archives. 2011); short essay; no copyright



 Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford UP, 2000) pp 45–120. online
 Gearson, John PS, and Kori N. Schake, eds. The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).



 Lunak, Petr. "Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis: Soviet brinkmanship seen from inside." Cold War History 3.2 (2003): 53–82.

 Newman, Kitty. Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1960 (Routledge, 2007).

 Rasmussen, Kasper Grotle. "In search of a negotiated settlement: McGeorge Bundy and the 1961 Berlin crisis." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 14.1 (2016): 47–64.
 Schick, Jack M. The Berlin crisis, 1958–1962 (1971) online
 Sergunin, Alexander. "The role of the Executive Office of the President in the US decision-making on the Berlin crisis of 1961." Americana 15 (2017): 64–95.
 Slusser, Robert M. The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Soviet-American Relations and the Struggle for Power in the Kremlin, June–November, 1961 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1973) excerpt
 Smith, Jean Edward. The defense of Berlin (1963).
 Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (WW Norton & Company, 2003). pp 480–506.online

 Tompson, William. Khrushchev: A political life (Springer, 2016). online
 Trachtenberg, Marc. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement 1945‒1963 (Princeton UP, 1999) pp. 283–402. excerpt
 Voorhees, Theodore. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game (U of Michigan Press, 2020).
 Windsor, Philip. "The Berlin Crises" History Today (June 1962) Vol. 6, pp. 375–384, summarizes the series of crises 1946 to 1961; online.
 Zubok, Vladislav. "Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis (1958‒1962)" (CWIHP, 1993) online, primary sources

Other websites
The Wall, 1958–1963 
Forty Years Crisis
First strike options and the Berlin Crisis
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Documents at the National Archives
Khrushchev's Secret Speech on the Berlin Crisis, August 1961 
Conference: "From Vienna to Checkpoint Charlie: The Berlin Crisis of 1961"


Crisis of 1961
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