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On June 24, 1948, the Russian's Josef Stalin decided to block all trade in and out of Berlin in order to force them to surrender. However, Harry Truman had a better idea, he organized the Allied efforts to schedule airtlifts to the people of Berlin, everything they needed for 15 months straight called the Berlin Airlift.

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