Just before midnight, the Soviets cut power to West Berlin and then begin a blockade of the city. June 24: All rail, road, and water access from the Western zones to Berlin is halted. The next ...

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 ...