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January 6 will cast a shadow over at least one more election.

Between June 1948 and September 1949 Allied transport planes carried more than 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin, saving its citizens from a Soviet blockade.

The Civil War may have officially ended in 1865, but that didn’t put a stop to the hostility people in this area felt toward the South. You can tell that

by Below are brief excerpts of the 350 page book Soviet troops leave the U.S. Sector of Berlin in July 1945. The Cold War conflict can be reduced to one particular issue and confrontation—Berlin. The four victorious Allies; the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France—jointly occupied the conquered city by formal agreement. Yet, almost from the signing of the German surrender documents, the alliance began to splinter. Each nation began the occupation with its own unique goals ...