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...
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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...
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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...
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A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes...
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Cold War (1948–1953) (section Berlin Blockade)
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...
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Raisin Bombers (category Berlin Blockade)
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...
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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...
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Cold War (section Berlin Blockade)
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...
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Eastern Bloc (section Berlin blockade and airlift)
Plan. In the former German capital Berlin, surrounded by Soviet-occupied Germany, Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade on 24 June 1948, preventing food...
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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...
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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...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall (‹See Tfd›German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning...
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"Berlin Airlift / Blockade". Western Allies Berlin. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2008. "Berlin after 1945". BerlinOnline...
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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...
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East Berlin (‹See Tfd›German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From...
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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...
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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...
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Interzonal traffic (section Berlin blockade)
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...
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restrictions and imposed a complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. Egypt began its blockade of Gaza in 2007, shortly...
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tense international situation including the onset of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade, and the geopolitical ramification of the later Nuremberg Trials upon...
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The Blockade of Germany, or the Blockade of Europe, occurred from 1914 to 1919. The prolonged naval blockade was conducted by the Allies during and after...
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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...
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Republic. During the Berlin Blockade, the Freie Universität Berlin was established as a de facto western successor in West Berlin in 1948, with support...
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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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Fritzlar Air Base (section Berlin Blockade)
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...
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split Berlin Blockade Korean War Secret Speech Sino-Soviet split Albanian–Soviet split De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania Berlin Wall...
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scenes of destroyed post-war Germany including the destruction and Berlin blockade which have become iconic images. In 1951, Ries returned to the US and...
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Continental System (redirect from Continental Blockade)
the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on 21 November 1806 in response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British...
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Northern Bukovina Battle of Berlin Soviet invasion of Manchuria Soviet deportations Soviet famine of 1946–1947 Cold War Berlin Blockade Korean War First Indochina...
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Potsdam Conference (redirect from Berlin Conference (1945))
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...
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