Article: BERLIN AND CUBA COLD WAR HOTSPOTS.

Jim Broderick looks at the crisis management of two moments when the spectre of nuclear war shadowed relations between the superpowers

The status of Berlin had been an ongoing problem to the Allies since the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 when the `Big Three' (Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union) had agreed to divide the defeated Germany into four occupied zones. They also split Berlin, which was located some 110 miles inside the Soviet zone, into four sectors each governed by a military commander from the respective victorious powers. But divisions among the Allies soon emerged concerning the future of Germany in general and Berlin in ...

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