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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian ...

Out of a military alliance of shared aims emerged two hostile camps, and these tensions were felt most acutely in Berlin.

Germany on Monday expressed “shock” over the death of six babies who froze to death in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing inhuman blockade of ... told the press in Berlin. Given the circumstances ...