Sixty-five years ago, Berlin was the subject of a bitter territorial dispute between world powers. After World War II, when the Allied powers of the Soviet Union, France, the U.K., and the U.S ...

The blockade had begun in June 1948, when the Soviet Union, in response to the introduction of a new currency in West Berlin, cut off all land and water routes into the city, effectively isolating ...

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2022. There are 233 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western ...

Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2021. There are 233 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the ...

The Berlin Blockade was lifted 70 years ago, on May 12, 1949.At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin, the German capital c… ...

June 24, 1948: The Soviet Union Begins a Blockade of West Berlin “Matters have been allowed to go so far that a mere truce seems to be ruled out.” Richard Kreitner ...

While mired in such conditions, Berlin emerged as a forward salient in the Western struggle against the Soviet Union,” the U.S. State Department wrote in a history of the crisis.

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...