The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single ...

BERLIN: Kleine Blockade. 3 minute read. TIME. April 11, 1955 12:00 AM GMT-5. S omewhere in the Kremlin, the Communists appear to keep a Machiavellian UNIVAC with buttons, lights and levers that ...

Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin Blockade, Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21 ...

Barack Obama arrives today in Berlin, a city with a singular relationship with America. It was 60 years ago last month that US Air Force cargo planes began what would become a year-long supply miss… ...

BBC news reporter Patrick Smith explains the atmosphere in Berlin as the Soviet blockade takes hold and the Western powers are forced to keep their sectors of the city supplied by flying in ...

On This Day: May 12th witnessed significant events throughout history, from geopolitics to cultural milestones, including the end of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin in 1949.

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control ...