PARIS, Oct. 21, 1948 (UP) - The three western powers, who have decided to withdraw their condemnation of Russia as a threat to peace if the Berlin blockade is lifted, accepted a small-nation ...

Berlin blockade lifted, but planes keep flying FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today.

The struggle to build support for humanitarian aid comes as May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade, a triumph for the West and one of the defining moments of the Cold War.

The Russians were clearly eager to end the Berlin blockade. The fact that the bold, persistent Berlin airlift—and Berliners’ dogged courage—had brought them to this point was a notable cold ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second World War's end, and when the Russians took decisive moves to drive the Allies out in June ...

Prelude to a Blockade Although Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchil and Joseph Stalin had agreed at the February 1945 Yalta conference to divide both Germany and Berlin into zones administered by ...