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 ...

The humanitarian mission known as the Berlin Airlift would be the only source of vital supplies for more than two million people until May 12, 1949, when the Soviet Union lifted the blockade. The ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came ... This became known as the Berlin Blockade. Berlin could now only ...

It has been 70 years since the term ‘Cold War’ entered the global lexicon to describe the period of geopolitical tensions and ...

The first major crisis of the Cold War close Cold WarThe political tension ... This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian ...

Guest speaker Terry Moore will be presenting a historic overview of the Berlin Blockade. This will be the first in a lecture series by Moore related to World War II. The event is free and open to ...

But of all the mechanisms, the most carefully calibrated is the squeezer known as the Berlin Blockade. It is so sensitive that it can register cold-war pressure by the raising or lowering of a ...