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When the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin in 1948, the Western Allies initiated a massive, sustained airlift. For nearly a year, planes ferried essential suppliescoal, food, medicineinto the isolate...
Officially the European Recovery Program, this US initiative provided massive financial aid to rebuild Western European economies after WWII. While ostensibly humanitarian, it was a crucial geopolitic...
The Soviet Union blockaded all land access to West Berlin, attempting to force the Western Allies out. This crisis, preceding the Airlift, was the first major flashpoint. It forced the Allies to commi...
Announced in 1947, the Truman Doctrine pledged American support to any nation resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures (i.e., communism). It marked the official pivot of US forei...
