The Soviets promptly cut off all road, rail and canal links between the three western zones and West Berlin, starting the Berlin Blockade.
32.
With the reopening of limited cross-border traffic to West Berlin after the end of the Berlin Blockade, it was discontinued on 21 March 1951.
33.
Hours-long security controls, not recognizing drivers'licenses, forbidding civilian airplanes from flying over Spanish air space _ all this brings to mind the Berlin blockade.
34.
I would argue that the West's propaganda advantage from winning the Berlin blockade made trying something like that again look like a bad idea.
35.
In 1948, the Soviets tried to force the Western Allies out of Berlin by imposing a land blockade on the western sectors the Berlin Blockade.
36.
In the wake of the Berlin blockade that had begun in June, he said : " Russia was not sincere in joining the United Nations.
37.
In August 1948, in response to the Berlin blockade, the U . S . deployed long-range B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers to four East Anglian bases.
38.
The Berlin Blockade began 24 June 1948 when the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies'railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control.
39.
In 1948, following disagreements regarding reconstruction and a new German currency, Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade, preventing food, materials and supplies from arriving in West Berlin.
40.
In the summer of 1948 he made Fox Able a reality and took the 56th FG to Germany in a show-of-force response to the Berlin blockade.