Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was ... Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies. This became known as the Berlin Blockade. Berlin could now only be ...

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 ...

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show that the Soviets also had power in Germany which could match the demonstrations of ...

At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could ... it became increasingly clear it was the Russian blockade, and not the Western ...