Europe 1963: Berlin Wall
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											Cold War
									
										
											
												-27–68 Julio-Claudian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												68–96 Flavian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												96–192 Nerva–Antonine Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												192–235 Severan Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												235–268 Crisis of the Third Century: Turmoil
											
										
									
										
											
												268–284 Crisis of the Third Century: Restoration
											
										
									
										
											
												284–311 Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
											
										
									
										
											
												311–363 Constantinian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												363–383 Valentinianic Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												383–408 Theodosian Dynasty: Divided Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												408–425 Theodosian Dynasty: The West Besieged
											
										
									
										
											
												425–441 Theodosian Dynasty: Fall of Africa
											
										
									
										
											
												441–455 Theodosian Dynasty: Hunnic Wars
											
										
									
										
											
												455–461 Last Hope of the Western Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												461–476 Fall of the Western Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												476–1803 NO MAPS FOR THIS PERIOD YET
											
										
									
										
											
												1803–1814 Napoleonic Wars
											
										
									
										
											
												1814–1815 Vienna and Waterloo
											
										
									
										
											
												1815–1848 Congress Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1848–1850 Springtime of Peoples
											
										
									
										
											
												1850–1859 Crimean War
											
										
									
										
											
												1859–1862 Italian Unification
											
										
									
										
											
												1862–1871 German Unification
											
										
									
										
											
												1871–1914 Imperial Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1914–1918 Great War
											
										
									
										
											
												1918–1922 Armistice Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1922–1939 Rise of Fascism
											
										
									
										
											
												1939–1942 World War II: Blitzkrieg
											
										
									
										
											
												1942–1945 World War II: Fall of the Third Reich
											
										
									
										
											
												1945–1990 Cold War
											
										
									
										
											
												1990–2010 Post-Cold War Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												2010–pres Crisis of Europe
											
										
									
								
							Berlin Wall
						
							
								19 Apr 1946 The Iron Curtain Descends
							
						
							
								10 Feb 1947 Paris Peace Treaties
							
						
							
								1 Aug 1948 Berlin Airlift
							
						
							
								7 Oct 1949 NATO and the Two Germanys
							
						
							
								21 Sep 1955 Warsaw Pact
							
						
							
								7 Nov 1956 Suez Crisis
							
						
							
								22 Feb 1958 Arab Nationalism
							
						
							
								26 Jun 1963 Berlin Wall
							
						
							
								26 May 1972 Detente
							
						
							
								15 Jun 1977 Cold War Rivalry in the Middle East
							
						
							
								25 Apr 1982 Islamic Resurgence
							
						
							
								10 Nov 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
							
						
					
				The coming of the 1960s saw the Cold War heating up, fueled by advances in missile technology. In 1961, another crisis hit Berlin when the communist East German government built a wall to stop its citizens fleeing to the west. The Berlin Wall would keep Germans divided for 28 years.
