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 ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came to a head in 1948. Germany had been divided into four zones of ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single ...