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.