Although Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchil and Joseph Stalin had ... power to West Berlin. On June 24, the Soviets halted all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun.

On 24 June 1948, Stalin cut all land 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 ...

Daily supplies were now running consistently above Berlin's subsistence level ... as to what it would take to end the blockade, Joseph Stalin conspicuously failed to mention the Western ...