The blockade of Berlin was the first serious ... allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk ... USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Albania.

Video above: Ring camera captures fire as house burnsCrews responded to the blaze at a home in the 300 block of South Locust Street in East Berlin Borough at 8:55 a.m.No one was injured ...

the Soviets cut electric power to West Berlin. On June 24, the Soviets halted all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the ...

1,600 outwit Berlin blockade BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI)--- Sixteen hundred East Germans have squeezed through the Communist blockade since it went into effect; it was revealed here today.A total ...