Posted by Michele Peters on Nov 20, 2009 - 09:55 AM
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As we celebrate International Education Week (IEW), I am reminded of Secretary Clinton's remarks during her recent trip to Russia about the U.S. government’s interest in forming more people-to-people partnerships to lay a strong foundation for future cooperation. Each year…
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Posted by Peter A. Kraemer on Nov 09, 2009 - 10:00 AM
Part 1: The Rise of the Berlin Wall | Part 2: The U.S. and the Berlin Wall
But the Berlin Wall also has a good side, if you will. In the sense that, remember I was talking earlier about the streams of refugees out of East Germany. The Berlin Wall did stop the flow of refugees. Five thousand people escaped over, under, and around the wall between 1961 and 1989.
But compare that with 2.7 million people leaving during…
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Posted by Peter A. Kraemer on Nov 08, 2009 - 01:52 AM
Part 1: The Rise of the Berlin Wall | Part 3: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The original response of the U.S. government was cool. As you know, President John Kennedy was president at the time. Kennedy’s reaction first was, he said, “…It’s a hell of a lot better to have a wall than a war.” It was fairly clear early on that the United States was not willing to go to war over Berlin. Now, if the Soviets…
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Posted by Peter A. Kraemer on Nov 07, 2009 - 08:54 PM
Part 2: The U.S. and the Berlin Wall | Part 3: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
To talk about the origins of the Berlin Wall, we have to go back to the end of the Second World War. You’d go back to the Yalta conference which was held between President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill in 1945 where the decision was made to divide Germany. There was not going to be an armistice or cease fire the same…
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Posted by Priscilla Linn on Nov 06, 2009 - 07:34 PM
The U.S. Diplomacy Center invites you to view the online exhibition Voices of U.S. Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall. This exhibition commemorates the 20 years since the demise of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
We invite you to share your memories and reflections here of this important date in history and the events in Germany and former communist states over the past two decades.
If the Wall fell before you were born, we are interested…
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