What Was the Berlin Wall? by Nico Medina

What Was the Berlin Wall? by Nico Medina

Author:Nico Medina [Medina, Nico & Who HQ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-24T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 7

Checkpoint Charlie

Four days after the sealing of the border, President Kennedy decided to send a convoy to Berlin—three hundred trucks loaded with artillery and fifteen hundred American soldiers. The convoy left from its base in Mannheim, West Germany. It traveled slowly along the autobahn—highway—through East German territory.

The United States was sending a message: America stood with West Berlin, and would protect it from communist aggression. By going through East Germany, the US was almost daring the communists to shut down land access to West Berlin—something they had not done since the unsuccessful Berlin blockade.



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