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 ...

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 ...

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 ...