The blockade of Berlin ... the Western sectors of Berlin. The USSR, which had been invaded twice by Germany, was alarmed at the prospect of a strong Germany. The Soviet leadership responded ...

March 20: At an ACC gathering in Berlin, the Soviet representative demands ... agency TASS reports a willingness by the Soviets to lift the blockade. The next day, the U.S. State Department ...

On 24 June 1948, Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies, citing ‘technical difficulties'. This became known as the Berlin blockade ... an attack on the Soviet bloc by the USA ...

Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador ... progressive” Berlin. Russia’s “Little Blockade,” set up four weeks ago, was ...

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. Germans recall 1953 revolt BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- Eight years ago this summer the Soviet zone of Germany exploded into ...

The Soviets could seize Berlin ... blockade of Cuba Kennedy’s final decision was a US blockade of Cuba, which Kennedy called a ‘quarantine zone’, and which could stop further Soviet missiles ...