The Easter Parade
1949 · Event
To prove the point beyond argument, the airlift delivers 12,941 tonnes of coal in twenty-four hours — a plane landing in Berlin every 62 seconds. The city is now better supplied by air than it was by rail before the blockade; in the Kremlin, the lesson lands too.
On these timelines: The Berlin Blockade, Germany, USA, Cold War, Master
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- Stalin blockades West Berlin (1948)
- Stalin lifts the blockade (1949)
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- The Candy Bomber (1948)
Around 1949
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Manhattan Project (1942)