the Soviets cut electric power to West Berlin. On June 24, the Soviets halted all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the ...

On 24th June 1948, Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies. This became known as the Berlin Blockade ... At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof ...

At the beginning of the airlift ... the Russian blockade, and not the Western airlift, that would fail. In November 1948 a new airport opened in the French sector of West Berlin, greatly ...

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show that the Soviets also had power in Germany which could match the demonstrations of ...

This woman's hat had tiny US and British flags to mark the occasion Dignitaries from around the world have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin airlift.