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[[File:Soviet_Tanks_near_Checkpoint_Charlie.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Soviet Tanks face US Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, Oct. 27, 1961 - picture from the CIA]]__NOTOC__
On November 10, 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech in which he demanded that the Western powers of the United States, Great Britain and France pull their forces out of West Berlin within six months. This ultimatum sparked a three year crisis over the future of the city of Berlin that culminated in 1961 with the building of the Berlin Wall. The division of Germany and its capital city of Berlin among the four victors of the Second World War was frozen in time by the onset of the Cold War despite the postwar agreements to unify the zones.
====Berlin showed contrasts between Communist and Capitalist Systems====
