The blockade of Berlin was the first serious ... was also to become legal tender in the Western sectors of Berlin. The USSR, which had been invaded twice by Germany, was alarmed at the prospect ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second ... all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run ...

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk ... Aims To resist an attack by the USSR on the USA or its Allies in Western Europe, based on the principle that an armed ...

Harry Truman refused to use force to break Joseph Stalin's blockade of Berlin. Dwight Eisenhower refused to send U.S. troops to save the Hungarian freedom fighters being run down by Soviet tanks ...

1,600 outwit Berlin blockade BERLIN, Aug. 14 ... to indicate that the price for an open border would be acquiescence to Soviet demands that the Western powers sign a peace treaty with East ...

Out of a military alliance of shared aims emerged two hostile camps, and these tensions were felt most acutely in Berlin.

This woman's hat had tiny US and British flags to mark the occasion Dignitaries from around the world have gathered in Berlin to commemorate ... Berlin airlift. The Soviet Union entirely blockaded ...