In the shadow of Berlin’s collapse, the French storm battalion held the line in Neukölln with teenagers, veterans, and ...

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The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

T he Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War period.

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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union chose escalation. Soviet forces blocked all road, rail, and river access to the Western sectors of Berlin, initiating the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union declared ...

After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United States, Great Britain and France), and East Germany, controlled by the ...

In June 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to cut off access to West Berlin in what became known as the Berlin Blockade, the first major crisis of the Cold War.

Tensions among the Allies, especially between the Soviet Union and the U.S., were evident from the start. In 1947, Great Britain and the U.S. combined their zones for stability purposes.

Although the Soviets lifted the blockade in mid-1949, tensions over Berlin never fully abated. Khrushchev understood that West Berlin was strategically important to the Soviet Union, too, as a ...