Domestic airports near Fort Leavenworth. 22 miles: Kansas City, MO (MCI / KMCI) Kansas City International Airport. 71 miles: Topeka, KS (FOE / KFOE) Forbes Field. 133 miles: Manhattan, KS (MHK / KMHK) Manhattan Regional Airport.nother major airport is Forbes Field (FOE / KFOE), which has domestic flights from Topeka, Kansas and is 71 miles from Fort Leavenworth.
An East German border policeman hands a flower to West Berliners on the 1989 weekend when the wall separating two parts of the city started to fall. Many people died while defying rules against crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. (Michael Probst/Reuters)
When the Berlin Wall was opened on November 9, 1989 it marked for many the symbolic end of that war. Back to The Cold War Chronology To find the cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one must look, not in Germany, but in the Soviet Union.The change began when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985.hen the Berlin Wall was opened on November 9, 1989 it marked for many the symbolic end of that war. Back to The Cold War Chronology To find the cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one must look, not in Germany, but in the Soviet Union. The change began when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985.