USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin Crisis started when the USSR issued an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The crisis culminated in the city’s de facto partition with the East German construction of the Berlin Wall.

Detailed explanation-2: -West Berlin was 160 km (100 mi) east and north of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945.

Detailed explanation-3: -The official name that the GDR had for West Berlin was: selbständige politische Einheit Westberlin: “independent political entity of Westberlin” – which of course was only to be found on signs at border posts and other such official places.

Detailed explanation-4: -West Berlin, the western half of the German city of Berlin (q.v.), which until the reunification of the German state in 1990 was treated as a city and Land (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), though it was not constitutionally part of that nation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The City of Berlin, located 200 miles inside East Germany, was also divided. Half of the city-West Berlin-was actually part of West Germany. Many East Germans did not want to live in a communist country and crossed into West Berlin, where they could either settle or find transportation to West Germany and beyond.