A Divided Berlin
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- A divided Berlin
- West Berlin
- West Berlin was deep inside Soviet-controlled East Germany
- Gave the USA a foothold inside the Soviet Eastern Bloc
- Some Germans in East Germany did not like having a communist government
- Better jobs with higher wages
- Easy to get to West Germany once you had reached the western zones of Berlin
- The Refugee problem in Berlin
- Population of west increased while economy benefited from an influx of skilled workers, left the east with a skills shortage
- Looked bad for Soviets: people clearly preferred the West
- 1949-61, 2.7m East Germans crossed from the East to the West in Berlin
- Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (Nov 1958)
- All Berlin belonged to East Germany, occupying troops must leave in six months
- USSR know if it tried to pus West out of Berlin using force, a war would start that it could not win. So, a series of summit meetings took place
- Summit meetings
- Geneva (May 1959), foreign representatives only. No solution agreed, further summit organised
- Camp David (Sept 1959), Eisenhower and Khrushchev. No solution agreed, another summit organised
- Paris (May 1960), Eisenhower and Khrushchev, disaster - Khrushchev walks out because US spy plane shot down over USSR
- Vienna (Jan 1961), Kennedy and Khrushchev, neither willing to back down. Khrushchev saw Kennedy's inexperience as a weakness and reissued his ultimatum
- West Berlin
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