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… ...

The 60th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade was commemorated May 12 in Frankfurt. It was a smaller and more somber ceremony than the events of 11 months ago celebrating the 60th ...

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 ...

The Western powers charted more than 200,000 flights into Berlin during this time, culminating in the 'Easter Parade' of 15-16 April 1949, in which over 12,900 tons of coal was flown into the city ...

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.