Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold ... the Berlin Airlift. To shoot down the planes could have provoked World War Three ...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift this documentary looks back on an uneasy time in world history This first battle of the cold war started with the Soviet blockade of Berlin a ...

July 17: Truman, Churchill and Stalin convene the Potsdam Conference to discuss post-war issues ... from Berlin. Clay refuses to comply and halts train shipments, starting a mini-airlift to ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948 ... became dependent on reserve stocks and airlift replacements. It was one of the most ruthless efforts in modern ...

This woman's hat had tiny US and British flags to mark the occasion Dignitaries from around the world have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin airlift.

Challenges: The Cold War began when World War II ended, and in 1947 ... Strained relations with Russia resulted in the Berlin Airlift—the dropping of supplies to East Berlin—and extended American ...