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 ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to ... Berlin has become unfortunately, the symbol not of the German problem, but of the Russian problem and United States efforts here have ...

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 ...