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World war II is over and Berlin is divided into four sectors. The American, British, French in the west and the soviet in the east.
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the Berlin blockade was started by the soviet union, to limit the ability of, Franc, Great Britain , and the united states to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
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U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by aircraft to Berlin after the city is isolated by the soviet union.
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on May 12, 1952, an early of the cold war comes to an end when the soviet union ends its 11 month blockade against west Berlin.
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Walter Ulbricht orders the construction of the Berlin Wall. Early on August 13, East German troops and workers begin stringing barbed wire and setting up barriers that will eventually become the Berlin Wall. The wall surrounding Berlin will extend 100 miles. Berlin is now a divided city and East Berlin is a prison from which its citizens can no longer escape.
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US president John F. Kennedy makes his now famous Berlin speech in front of the Schoneberg City Hall in the western half of the city: “All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner."
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Martin Luther King Jr. visits East and West Berlin. He crosses the Wall using his American Express card for ID.
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Walter Ulbricht, the head of the German Democratic Republic, dies in office on August 1. Willi Stoph replaces him for three years, until Stoph is in turn replaced by Erich Honecker, the man who was in charge of building the Wall.
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US president Ronald Reagan visits Berlin for the first time
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Hungarian government opens border for East German refugees
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The Berlin Wall is open.
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Brandenburg Gate is opened for the public to use.
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Germane is reunited.
