In response, the Western Allies impose a counter-blockade on Soviet areas. June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

W7est Berlin, an island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever ... make it easier to blockade Berlin again, and ...

The sound of the airlift planes, which had dwindled to a whisper, swelled to a cheering roar. Not since the blockade began had the morale of West Berlin been so high. At the polls the people had ...

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