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 ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came ... This became known as the Berlin Blockade. Berlin could now only ...

The first major crisis of the Cold ... access to Berlin for the Allies, citing ‘technical difficulties'. This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin ...