They also imposed a blockade on West Berlin, cutting off all land and rail routes into the Western sectors. Lucius Clay, the military governor of the American zone of occupied Germany wrote ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came to a head in 1948. Germany had been divided into four zones of ...

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 ...