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The Berliner Helicopter is a series of experimental helicopters built by Henry Berliner between 1922 and 1925. The helicopters had only limited controllability but were the most significant step forward in helicopter design in the US, until the production of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in 1940. [ 1 ]
The Berlin Blockade (24 june 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Henry Adler Berliner (December 13, 1895 – May 1, 1970) was a United States aircraft and helicopter pioneer. Berliner Helicopter No. 5 (1924), as on exhibit in College Park, Md. Sixth son of inventor Emile Berliner , he was born in Washington, D.C.
The instances were: 1) the 2- to 3-year period between Vladimir Lenin's incapacitation and Joseph Stalin's leadership; 2) the three months following Stalin's death; [39] 3) the years between Nikita Khrushchev's fall and Leonid Brezhnev's consolidation of power; [23] and 4) the ailing Konstantin Chernenko's tenure as General Secretary. [60]
Between October 1940 and February 1942, in spite of the ongoing Axis attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army, in particular the Soviet Air Force, as well as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin.
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia , to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...
The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953, commonly referred to as the Stalin Era or the Stalinist Era, covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-02-934715-7. Ziemke, Earl F. (1968). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, DC: The U.S. Army Center of Military History. ISBN 1-4102-0414-6. Ziemke, Earl (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin. The German Defeat in the East ...