June 5: New Secretary of State George Marshall presents the "Marshall Plan" of reconstruction ... starting a mini-airlift to re-supply the roughly 6,000 Western troops in Berlin that lasts ...

Just before midnight on 23 June 1948, electricity supply from the Soviet occupied sector in Berlin to the three western sectors ... the announcement of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, the ...

As a result, the people living in the western sectors of Germany and Berlin became much better off than those living in the Soviet sectors. The introduction of the Marshall Plan in 1948 made this ...

A lack of basic goods like fuel and medicines. At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Keeping West Berlin supplied in this way cost the ...

This woman's hat had tiny US and British flags to mark the occasion Dignitaries from around the world have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin airlift.