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 Germans thought they had no choice but to gamble. The British naval blockade of Germany after three years had reduced Germany to near famine. More than 200,000 American reinforcement troops ...

Germany had been divided into four zones of ... This became known as the Berlin Blockade. Berlin could now only be accessed by air, resulting in a restriction on the freedom to travel outside ...