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Additional Reading

Broderick, Jim. “Berlin and Cuba: Cold War Hotspots.” History Today4812 (December 1998)23

Kaplan, Lawrence S. The Long Entanglement: NATO’s First Fifty Years. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Slusser, Robert M. “The Berlin Crises of 1958–59 and 1961.” In Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument, 356–396. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1978.

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Media added. Oct 30, 2026
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Berlin Crisis. May 28, 2024
Add new Web site: The Alpha History - The Berlin crisis. Feb 28, 2024
Add new Web site: National Archives - A Brief History of the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Apr 01, 2023
Media added. May 12, 2020
Add new Web site: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - The Berlin Crisis of 1961 Documents. Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: Miller Center - University of Virginia - JFK's Report on the Berlin Crisis (July 25, 1961). Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - The Berlin Crisis. Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: Central Intelligence Agency - The Berlin Crisis. Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: The National Security Archive - First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961. Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: C-SPAN - Video - Berlin Crisis of 1961. Aug 29, 2014
Add new Web site: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - The Cold War in Berlin. Aug 29, 2014
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