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The Berlin Blockade (24 April 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.
At the Vienna summit on 4 June 1961, tensions rose. Meeting with US President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reissued the Soviet ultimatum to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and thus end the existing four-power agreements guaranteeing American, British, and French rights to access West Berlin and the occupation of East Berlin by Soviet forces. [1]
Berlin Crisis: C-97 Stratofreighter; assigned to 133d ATW; Augmented MATS airlift capability 146th Air Transport Wing: California: 1 October 1961: Van Nuys MAP, CA: 31 August 1962: Berlin Crisis: C-97 Stratofreighter; Augmented MATS airlift capability 147th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron: Pennsylvania: 13 May 1968: Scott AFB, IL: 12 December 1968
The Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 was a crisis over the status of West Berlin during the Cold War. It resulted from efforts by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to react strongly against American nuclear warheads located in West Germany, and build up the prestige of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany .
The Berlin Airlift Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) transport squadron formed to participate in the Berlin Airlift.The unit operated for one year, between August 1948 and August 1949, and was raised specifically for the operation, drawing crews from two existing RAAF transport squadrons.
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Clay orchestrated the Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) when the USSR blockaded West ... Lucius Clay and the Berlin Crisis, 1961–62." Cold War History 6.2 (2006): 205 ...
Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina. The plane will be reassembled ...