What was the Berlin blockade and airlift?

The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.

En junio de 1948 estalló una de las primeras grandes crisis de la guerra fría. Las tensiones entre los aliados occidentales y la URSS cristalizaron en Berlín, la antigua capital del Reich ahora ocupado, que se hallaba en la zona controlada por los soviéticos. Wikipedia

Fecha: 24 de jun. de 1948 – 12 de may. de 1949

Ubicación: Berlín Oeste

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