History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1815 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Berlin Airlift
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The idea
In June nineteen forty-eight, after the Western powers introduced a new currency in their zones, Stalin cut every land and water route into West Berlin.
In practice
The United States, Britain and France supplying the city by air for a year, about two million tons in all.
Where people slip
On May twelfth, nineteen forty-nine, the anchor records, the Soviets ended the blockade.
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