Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the American garrison for ten days in April, Clay was in no position to feed Berlin from the air. The United States Air Force had only 102 transport ...

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 ...

(KY3) - The U.S. Army celebrated the 75th anniversary of The Berlin Airlift this summer in Wiesbaden ... Truman decided that the United States would not abandon the people of West Berlin.

The Berlin Airlift is now premodern history. Why, then, do confident Germans increasingly dislike the United States? It is complicated. Since 1989, Germany has worked hard on its post-unification ...

Uneasy Postwar Relations: The Road to the Berlin Airlift Following the end of World War II , the alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western powers—the United States, Great Britain, and ...

Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism ... Strained relations with Russia resulted in the Berlin Airlift—the dropping of supplies to East Berlin—and ...