Cold War
History of Germany
The Berlin Airlift was a reaction to what?
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January 30, 2013 2:13PM
the Soviet blockade of West Berlin
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
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