The blockade of Berlin ... the Western sectors of Berlin. The USSR, which had been invaded twice by Germany, was alarmed at the prospect of a strong Germany. The Soviet leadership responded ...

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 ...

March 20: At an ACC gathering in Berlin, the Soviet representative demands ... agency TASS reports a willingness by the Soviets to lift the blockade. The next day, the U.S. State Department ...

On 24 June 1948, Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies, citing ‘technical difficulties'. This became known as the Berlin blockade ... an attack on the Soviet bloc by the USA ...

After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador ... progressive” Berlin. Russia’s “Little Blockade,” set up four weeks ago, was ...

The lifting of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin in 1949 marked a significant turning point in the early stages of the Cold War. The blockade had begun in June 1948, when the Soviet Union ...

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to ...

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. Germans recall 1953 revolt BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- Eight years ago this summer the Soviet zone of Germany exploded into ...

The Soviets could seize Berlin ... blockade of Cuba Kennedy’s final decision was a US blockade of Cuba, which Kennedy called a ‘quarantine zone’, and which could stop further Soviet missiles ...