The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation...

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes...

to force the Western Allies out of Berlin by imposing a land blockade on the western sectors—the Berlin Blockade. The West responded by using its air...

the Berlin Blockade and had ordered the first measures in what became the Berlin Airlift. He was immensely popular with the residents of West Berlin, and...

1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin. On the day of the Berlin Blockade, a Soviet representative told the other occupying powers...

"Berlin Airlift / Blockade". Western Allies Berlin. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2008. "Berlin after 1945". BerlinOnline...

Plan. In the former German capital Berlin, surrounded by Soviet-occupied Germany, Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade on 24 June 1948, preventing food...

aircraft which brought in supplies by airlift to West Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade in 1948/1949. In American English they were called Candy...

The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the...

States-allied West Germany. Major crises of this phase included the Berlin Blockade of 1948–1949, the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1945–1949, the Korean...

Four Power occupation of Berlin and the Soviet blockade by land of the city's western boroughs. The description of the Berlin Airlift is quite vivid as...

East Berlin (German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it...

The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of...

unresolved status of West Berlin led to the Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949). The Soviet army initiated the blockade by halting all Allied rail...

A blockade has been imposed on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip since Hamas's takeover in 2007, led by Israel and supported...

for the entire duration of the Berlin Blockade (26 June 1948 – 12 May 1949). Following the end of the Berlin Blockade, AOA launched additional dedicated...

access to West Berlin on 26 June 1948, in what became known as the "Berlin Blockade". The Soviet goal was to gain control of the whole of Berlin. The American...

Berlin Crisis may refer to: Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949 Second Berlin Crisis (1958–1963) Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 Berlin Crisis of 1961, a part of...

Republic. During the Berlin Blockade, the Freie Universität Berlin was established as a de facto western successor in West Berlin in 1948, with support...

tense international situation including the onset of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade, and the geopolitical ramification of the later Nuremberg Trials upon...

because of the Berlin Blockade crisis. Because the single express train route in inter-zonal traffic (FD 111/112) between Cologne and Berlin was permanently...

held the area surrounding the city and thus land access. During the Berlin Blockade, this land access was closed, and an airlift remained the only option...

Europe and ease the now-widespread anxieties there. The coup and the Berlin Blockade that June made clear that constant reassurance was needed to bind the...

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blown up, roads were blockaded, and hostages were taken. In a new and effective tactic, the Popular Front launched a rail blockade of Armenia, which caused...

presence of US Forces at Fritzlar Kaserne came to an end. During the Berlin Blockade in 1948/49, Fritzlar Air Base served as radio beacon and emergency...

meeting in the Berlin area. Informed of this by the US, Churchill sent a letter agreeing that he'd be happy to meet in "what is left of Berlin". Some sources...

the Soviets occupied the city's transit routes on 24 June in the Berlin Blockade; road, rail and ship connections to the surrounding area were not affected...

The Berlin Airlift Device is miniature gold airplane that was awarded for wear on occupation medals and ribbons issued to United States Armed Forces service...

occupied Berlin, 3 June 1945 When the Cold War emerged, the building was physically within West Berlin, but in ruins. During the Berlin Blockade, an enormous...