The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...

with the people of Berlin by saying he too was 'a Berliner'. Those who tried to defect could now end up being shot and many families were divided by the wall. Kennedy showed that, although he was ...

Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice ... Eg in Hungary in 1956, the Hungarian rebels were being violently repressed by the Soviet army and in the Truman ...