(the) Berlin Blockade
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...was not on water, but on land. The city of Berlin, divided into East and West zones, was blockaded by the Soviet Union from June 1948 until May 1949. All communication by rail, road, and waterway was cut off from the Western sectors of the city. An airlift by Great Britain and the United States frustrated the blockade and saved the city. A few years before, upon Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R. occupied the country and assumed responsibility for its administration. The commanders-in-chief exercised supreme authority in the irrespective zones and, sitting as the Allied Control Council (ACC), acted jointly by unanimous decision on questions affecting Germany as a whole. France was later invited to join the ACC and was given a separate zone of occupation (Gelb, 1986). At Potsdam in August 1945, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union agreed to a broad program of decentralization, treating Germany as a single economic unit with certain central administrative departments. These plans failed, primarily because of ever-increasing differences with the Soviet Union. In 1948, the Soviets withdrew from...
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