The blockade of Berlin was the first serious ... was also to become legal tender in the Western sectors of Berlin. The USSR, which had been invaded twice by Germany, was alarmed at the prospect ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second ... all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run ...

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk ... Aims To resist an attack by the USSR on the USA or its Allies in Western Europe, based on the principle that an armed ...

The sculpture on Platz der Luftbrücke in front of the disused Tempelhof Airport commemorates the effort to supply the West ...

Washington is winding down its European security contributions and backing away from Ukraine. Europeans could learn from ...

1,600 outwit Berlin blockade BERLIN, Aug. 14 ... to indicate that the price for an open border would be acquiescence to Soviet demands that the Western powers sign a peace treaty with East ...

Three years into the postwar occupation of Germany, the USSR had tired of sharing Berlin, so it blockaded ... the Soviets eventually called off the blockade for one simple reason: It wasn ...