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 ...

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.

Seventy-five years ago Tuesday — June 26, 1948 — the Soviet Union halted freight and passenger traffic from the U.S., British and French-controlled sectors of post-war Germany into Berlin.

Seventy five years ago, the Berlin Airlift of 1948/49 marked a turning point in our Cold War with the Soviet Union. The airlift broke the Soviet Union’s blockade of road, rail, and water access ...

After the Soviet Union cut supply lines to West Berlin in 1948, Western Allies launched a historic rescue effort: an airlift for more than 2 million residents. Seventy-five years on Germany is ...

The struggle to build support for humanitarian aid comes as May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade, ... especially between the Soviet Union and the U.S., were evident ...

Soviet Union ended blockade of Berlin wall. The lifting of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin in 1949 marked a significant turning point in the early stages of the Cold War.