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 ...

Seventy years ago, in May, 1949, much to the relief of many in the world, the Soviets ended their 327-day blockade of West Berlin, located about 110 miles into Soviet-controlled East Germany.

Sixty-five years ago, Berlin was the subject of a bitter territorial dispute between world powers. After World War II, when the Allied powers of the Soviet Union, France, the U.K., and the U.S ...

The Berlin Blockade was lifted 70 years ago, on May 12, 1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin, the German capital ...

The Berlin Blockade was the first serious clash between the members of the former Grand Alliance close Grand Alliance During World War Two, the USA, Britain and the USSR formed the Grand Alliance ...

During the airlift, over 2.3 million tons of fuel, food and supplies were delivered to West Berlin in over 278,000 airdrops, according to a history of the campaign, by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2022. There are 233 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western ...

Berlin • Berliners on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former ...

Berlin—isolated in the Soviet zone 100 miles from Germany’s internal border—was itself divided in similar fashion. Two rail lines and two autobahns controlled by the Russians afforded the ...

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 ...