As a result of the political and economical tensions brought on by the Cold War, on 13 August 1961, East Germany began building of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin and similar barriers around West Berlin, and events escalated to a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie on 27 October 1961.

* 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

The Nibelungen bridge that spans the Danube river from the Hauptplatz ( main square ) was at that time Linz's version of Checkpoint Charlie.

The Clinton Plaza bars Checkpoint Charlie and Hollywood-a-Go-Go appear in Jordan Clark's 2005 documentary Falang: Behind Bangkok's Smile which takes a rather critical view of sex tourism in Thailand.

A view of Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, from the American sector

Checkpoint Charlie ( or " Checkpoint C ") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.

Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of east and west.

After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction.

Map of Berlin Wall with location of Checkpoint Charlie

Russian Zone from Checkpoint Charlie observation post, 1982.

Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point in the Berlin Wall located at the junction of with and, ( which for older historical reasons coincidentally means ' Wall Street ').

Checkpoint Charlie was designated as the single crossing point ( by foot or by car ) for foreigners and members of the Allied forces.

The name Charlie came from the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet ; similarly for other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn from the West: Checkpoint Alpha at and its counterpart Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, Wannsee in the south-west corner of Berlin.

The East Germans referred officially to Checkpoint Charlie as the (" Border Crossing Point ").

Admission stamp applied to a passport at the East German ( DDR ) Friedrich / Zimmerstraße crossing at Checkpoint Charlie.

( 1964 ) As the most visible Berlin Wall checkpoint, Checkpoint Charlie is frequently featured in spy movies and books.

United States | U. S. tanks face an East German water cannon at Checkpoint Charlie, 1961.

Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall, a standoff occurred between U. S. and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie.

The Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum opened two years after the wall was erected.

Checkpoint Charlie as tourist attraction.

A copy of the guard house and sign that once marked the border crossing was later built where Checkpoint Charlie once was.

Near the location of the guard house is the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, a private museum opened in 1963 by Rainer Hildebrandt, which was augmented with a new building during the 1990s.

The watchtower, which was the last surviving original Checkpoint Charlie structure, was demolished to make way for offices and shops.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-87665-0002, Berlin, Mauerbau, Checkpoint Charlie. jpg | East German guards checking permits of bus passengers going through the checkpoint in October, just after the Wall was built on 13 August 1961.

File: Checkpoint Charlie1. jpg | The Western ( foreground ) and Eastern ( background ) checkpoints, with the latter's famous watchtower, which was demolished in 2000.

* Britain's longest running " techno " club night, based near London, was called " Checkpoint Charlie "

* Checkpoint Charlie was the scene of numerous fictional spy swaps in such works as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

* Checkpoint Charlie was the inspiration for the Call of Duty: Black Ops ( First Strike map pack ) map " Berlin Wall "

There were some border control points, the most famous of which was Checkpoint Charlie between Kreuzberg and Mitte, which was operated by the United States Army and its allies and was open to foreigners and diplomats.

At precisely the same time, at Checkpoint Charlie, Frederic Pryor was released by the East German Stasi into the waiting arms of his father.

One should also note that, as the author of the collection was named Wumen ( which could mean either the literal gateless or the figurative gate of emptiness ), Wumenguan could also be read as simply, the Checkpoint of Wumen.

Checkpoint three, the final barrier located at the outer reaches of the Wolfsschanze, was expected to prove impenetrable, but the two men were simply waved through to the Rastenburg airport.

Hussam Abdo ( born c. 1990 as Hussam Muhammad Bilal Abdu ) was a Palestinian teenager, from the Masahiya area of Nablus, who made international headlines on 24 March 2004, when he entered the Hawara Checkpoint in the West Bank, with eight kilos ( 18 lbs ) of explosives strapped to his body as part of a suicide attack attempt.

Secondary School ( Grades 6 to 12 ) courses initially lead to the CIE Checkpoint examinations, which are taken by the students at the end of Grade 8 in the following subjects: English ; Mathematics and Science.

The others were Checkpoint Bravo, where the autobahn crossed from East Germany into West Berlin, and most famous of all, Checkpoint Charlie, the only place where non-Germans could cross from West to East Berlin.

East German law only allowed crossing the border at so called Grenzübergangsstellen (" checkpoints "), such as the famous Checkpoint Charlie.

In the episode, " Checkpoint ", Anya is questioned by members of the Watchers ' Council, and invents the full name Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins, and claims to have been born on the Fourth of July in Indiana.

* Mention of Checkpoint Charlie in Series 3 Episode 3 of The Thick of It by character Glenn Cullen

* British spy James Bond ( played by Roger Moore ) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from the West of Germany to the east.

The tensions between east and west were exacerbated by a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie on 27 October 1961.

There are eight high concrete sections of wall, each weighing about three tons, and a three-story East German guard tower from Checkpoint Charlie ( or " Checkpoint C "), the name given by Western Allies to Berlin's best-known East-West crossing.

* An untitled afterword by Wumen that ends with the words " The end of the volume the Gateless Checkpoint.

Then, as well as the flagship evening news programme Reporting Scotland presented by Mary Marquis and Douglas Kynoch with contributions from Renton Laidlaw in Edinburgh and Donny B MacLeod in Aberdeen, there were popular current affairs series like Compass, Checkpoint with Esmond Wright and Magnus Magnusson, Person to Person with Mary Marquis, Current Account, Public Account and Agenda.

In Checkpoint, traffic is regulated by traffic lights, but the player is under no obligation to obey them.

Checkpoint activation is controlled by two master kinases, ATM and ATR.

This is followed by Late Edition between 22: 15 and 22: 45, a half hour of highlights from Radio New Zealand News current affairs programmes Morning Report, Nine to Noon and Checkpoint.

During the Cold War it was bisected by the Berlin Wall and was the location of Checkpoint Charlie.

* Checkpoint ( 1965 ) Commissioned by BBC Radio

* Checkpoint ( novel ), a 2004 novel by Nicholson Baker

* Checkpoint ( pinball ), a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East