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The Soviets threw everything at them, mortars, flamethrowers, Stalin tanks, but the French SS wouldn’t yield. In the ...
In late June, following the introduction of the deutsche mark, the Soviets severed land and water connections between the non-Soviet zones and Berlin, halting rail and barge traffic in and out of ...
BERLIN, May 26, 1949 (UP) - The Russians yielded to urgent Allied representations today and hauled four Americans and British passenger and mail trains into ... Soviets allow four trains into Berlin.
The end of the Berlin Airlift on September 30, 1949, marked a stunning, early victory in the Cold War. Over 15 months, more than 200,000 planes delivered about 2.3 million tons of supplies to the ...
The new currency, over which the Soviets would have no control, 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 battle for Berlin had cost the Soviets over 70,000 dead. Many of them had died because of the haste with which the campaign was conducted.
Berlin was split — the Soviets in the eastern area of the city, the Americans, French and British in the West. Although the Soviets would coordinate occupation policy with the Americans, ...
For 323 days after the Soviets blockaded West Berlin to try to drive the West out — from June 24, 1948, to May 12, 1949 — more than 200,000 American and British flights delivered approximately ...
In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71.. In 1948, Soviet forces blockaded the western zones of Berlin, setting the stage for the Berlin airlift to ...
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and for 28 years, it stood as the front line of the Cold War between the Western world order, led by the U.S., and the Soviets.