The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first such crisis that resulted in casualties. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under their control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The over 4000 tons per day required by Berlin during the airlift totaled, for example, over ten times the volume that the encircled German 6th Army required six years earlier at the Battle of Stalingrad. The United States Air Force, Royal Air Force, and other Commonwealth nations flew over 200000 flights providing 13000 tons of food daily to Berlin in an operation lasting almost a year.[1] By the spring of 1949, the effort was clearly succeeding, and by April the airlift was delivering more cargo than had previously flowed into the city by rail. The success of the Airlift was humiliating to the Soviets, who had repeatedly claimed it could never work. When it became clear that it did work, the blockade was lifted in May. One lasting legacy of the Airlift is the three airports in the former western zones of the city, which served as the primary ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmLeEXeAvU&hl=en
Find cheap airline tickets with exclusive cheap airfare deals. Book cheap flights, discount plane tickets, cheap air tickets & more.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Writing a cover letter to send with your résumé can be both confusing and frustrating. What exactly should you say? Are you saying too much?...
-
"We're growing down our surfboards We can not wait for the month of June," sang the Beach Boys on one of their hits, too, the...
-
The air travel has grown exponentially and the entire world has become one global market. There is tremendous international business now th...
-
No traveler prefers to spend a treasure to travel to the world's most famous attractions. With the fear of spending a huge amount of mo...
-
So as you have probably seen and witnessed it can be very difficult to get cheap international airplane tickets , and often times what thes...
-
HOLLO ,This is the one of the kind of travel web site, www.city-escape-travel.com WIll allowyou to compare the cheap Airfares & Airline ...
-
, Where flights travelers last change, he thought in modern times and the price, the fashion, as it is serious. For many people, the treat...
-
The aviation industry has extended the requirement for reservation of flight and / or negotiated prices of airline tickets cheap domestic...
-
1. You must book tickets in advance. Explanation: Airlines usually offer cheap airline tickets / discounted tickets 7 to 21 days in ad...
-
A video showing the X-Plane version designed for the iPad. Much improved over the iPhone version, incredible graphics and level of simulatio...
0 comments:
Post a Comment