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15 de may. de 2024 · Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin and extended a further 75 miles around West Berlin.
9 de may. de 2024 · Berlin blockade, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. Learn more about the Berlin blockade in this article.
Hace 5 días · Berlin, capital and chief urban center of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
Hace 1 día · Fearing political upheaval, on May 12, 1949, the USSR finally lifted the blockade of West Berlin. By then, the US pilots had made about 260,000 flights to the city’s airports. The Berlin Airlift continued until September 1949, as the Allies wanted to be prepared in case the Soviets implemented another blockade. The Aftermath of the Berlin Airlift
Hace 2 días · The border could be crossed legally only through a limited number of air, road, rail and river routes. Foreigners were able to cross East German territory to or from West Berlin, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Hace 2 días · On 13 August 1961, East Germany began building the Berlin Wall around West Berlin to slow the flood of refugees to a trickle, effectively cutting the city in half and making West Berlin an enclave of the Western world in communist territory.
15 de may. de 2024 · These leaders preserved West Berlin’s position as a beacon of democracy while avoiding provoking a devastating global conflagration until an era of stability could take hold. Ultimately, there can be no détente with China without the creation of a figurative “wall” across the Taiwan Strait.
