Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962

This collection provides a record of U.S. policy during the most prolonged U.S.-Soviet crisis of the Cold War era. It contains approximately 3000 documents from the Department of State and Department of Defense, primarily from November 1958 to the fall of 1962. Some of the topics covered in the collection are: U.S. policy toward Berlin and Germany in the years before the beginning of the crisis in 1958; alliance issues among the Unites States, Britain, France and West Germany; the U.S.-Soviet tank confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie, October 1961; the connection between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Crisis; and U.S. nuclear weapons policy.