Stalin blockades West Berlin
1948 · Event
Two and a quarter million people in the western sectors are cut off with just over a month's food and coal, a hundred miles inside the Soviet zone. Stalin is betting the West will either abandon Berlin or abandon its new German state; General Clay proposes shooting through with an armoured convoy. Truman chooses the air instead.
On these timelines: The Berlin Blockade, Germany, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Master
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