Cities burned. Divisions vanished. And yet the Soviets pressed forward. As Red Army spearheads punched through German defenses, the battle for Poland turned west. In this pivotal phase, ...

In the dying days of the Reich, 350 French SS soldiers of the Charlemagne Division held their ground in Berlin’s burning ...

Critics invoked the specter of 2003 and the quagmire of Iraq. Opinion pieces warned of regional blowback and a united front ...

The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

In June 1948, Joseph Stalin's government attempted to consolidate control of the city by cutting off all land and sea routes to West Berlin in order to pressure the Allies to evacuate. As a result, by ...

Meanwhile, Berlin, the beleaguered “island in the Red sea,” was reminding the Western powers that, come Stalin, come Khrushchev, the underlying goals of Soviet foreign policy remain the same.

Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin ...

The Berlin Airlift - in answer to the so-called Berlin Blockade instituted by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin - makes sure Americans living in West Berlin can get their groceries.

Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin’s sole currency.

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, imposed the Berlin Blockade, which would continue until May 12, 1949. The Western Allies responded with a massive airlift to come to West Berlin’s aid.

When that didn’t happen—when Moscow’s legitimacy beyond Stalin’s authority failed to take root—he had only improvisation to fall back on: indecisiveness in responding to the Marshall Plan, a ...