For almost a year, the Soviet Union blocked road, rail and waterway access to Berlin in ... that the blockade might be lifted and at midnight on 12 May it came to an end. Please note there is ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second World War's end, and when the ... access to the city; the blockade had begun.

Daily supplies were now running consistently above Berlin's subsistence level of ... press questions as to what it would take to end the blockade, Joseph Stalin conspicuously failed to mention ...

Great Britain and France was the Berlin airlift. To help the 2.2 million people living in their sectors survive, planes took ...