BBC news reporter Patrick Smith explains the atmosphere in Berlin as the Soviet blockade takes hold and the Western powers are forced to keep their sectors of the city supplied by flying in ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single ...

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show that the Soviets also had power in Germany which could match the demonstrations of ...

Farmers in Germany have begun blockading roads in protest against subsidy cuts, with some 200 tractors parked up by Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. There are also reported blockages in Baden ...

Hundreds of climate protesters took part in the blockade, hours before another rally ... disrupted traffic in the German capital, Berlin, on Saturday, police said. A police spokeswoman said ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian ...