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	Tourist Information about Berlin - 4 Hotel Reservations Berlin
		The Reichstag is the seat of the German Bundestag or federal government and, with its new dome, one of the Berlin's biggest crowd-draws in Berlin.
		Berlin's magnificent boulevard, the centrepiece of the Old Berlin, leads from Pariser Platz at the »Brandenburg Gate to the Schlossbrücke bridge.
		The place of the former Berlin Palace was taken by the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) which had to be closed in the nineties due to its intoxication with asbestos.
	www.4hotelreservationsberlin.com /tourist-information.php (2287 words)

	Berlin Blockade: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		Germany after World War II had been split between the four victorious powers, and Berlin, deep inside the eastern, Soviet-controlled sector, was similarly split into four sectors.
		Ostensibly in a conflict over the currency to be used in the German capital, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on all ground routes into western Berlin in order to try to get the western powers to submit to Russian control of Berlin.
		This report from The Times on June 28, 1948, describes the beginning of the stand-off that was to lead to the supply of the French, US, and UK sectors of Berlin by air—the Berlin Airlift.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_121504238/Berlin_Blockade_The_Times_Report.html (133 words)

	Berlin Blockade und Luftbrücke - Berlin blockade and airlift
		On the outside of the new building of the German Museum of Technology (Helge Pitz and Ulrich Wolff) hangs a symbol of the Berlin Airlift (Operation Vittles): a Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" (the British equivalent was the "Dakota").
		It belonged to the aircrafts of the Western allied air fleet which supplied West Berlin with food and coal during the Soviet blockade of the city in 1948/49: a total of 278 288 flights with 2.3 Million tons of goods.
		The Soviets finally lifted the blockade in May 1949 and reopened land and water routes into West Berlin.
	www.see-berlin.de /home/technikmuseum.htm (301 words)

	Sehenswürdigkeiten Berlin \| Ausflugsziele \| Reiseführer \| Informationen über Berlin
		Berlin ist ein Stadtstaat und damit ein eigenständiges Bundesland umgeben vom Land Brandenburg in Osten Deutschlands (70km von der Grenze zu Polen entfernt) und grenzt an acht weitere Landkreise an.
		Ansonsten gibt Berlin vielen Wirtschaftssektoren Ihren Standort, besonders ist der Tertiärsektor (41% aller Erwerbstätigen in Berlin).
		Berlin wurde 1451 dann Residenzstadt der brandenburgischen Markgrafen und Kurfürsten und verlor seinen Status eine freie Hansestadt zu sein.
	www.sehenswuerdigkeiten-berlin.com (1079 words)

	BBC News \| Berlin \| The Berlin blockade: Moscow draws the iron curtain
		But instead of shelling and gunfire, the Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift was a war of steely nerve, logistics and diplomatic obstruction that left both sides wondering who would back down first.
		Moscow's blockade of Berlin was calculated to oust the western powers who occupied the city with the USSR.
		Berlin, Hitler's former powerbase and the focus of the Third Reich, had an anomalous position, located as it was deep in the heart of the Soviet-controlled part of Germany.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/berlin/72088.stm (683 words)

	Blockade Lifted
		The end of the Berlin blockade on May 12 turned out to be a happy and fitting coincidence and climax for the soldier-statesman who had guided US policy in occupied Germany for almost four years.
		Thereafter, when Soviet threats again endangered Berlin, other US presidents wisely used Clay as an ambassador to show the Berliners and to signal to the Soviet Union that the United States had no intention of surrendering the principle of their presence and right to be in Berlin.
		A large number of the railroad workers resided in West Berlin and had been hard hit by the first currency reform of June 1948 because the State Railroad Authority (Reichsbahndirecktion), controlled by the Soviets, refused to pay them 25 percent of their wages in West Marks as employers in the Western Sectors were required.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /whistlestop/BERLIN_A/BLOCKADE.HTM (4548 words)

	Cold War I: Berlin Crisis - Major Events
		Three key events led to the Soviet blockade of Berlin: the Truman Doctrine and the institution of the Marshall Plan for European Recovery; the London Conferences of 1948; and the resulting London Program which called for a separate, economically revitalized West Germany - and currency reform as a means to this end.
		The Berliners experienced terrible hardships of hunger, cold, and fear, but appreciated the fact that the Western Allies were sacrificing so much, including their lives, for their former enemies.
		This information may have convinced the Soviets that their blockade was doomed to failure, which therefore might have helped persuade them to end the blockade of Berlin.
	www.opb.org /education/coldwar/berlincrisis/events (1451 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Document: CIA Weekly Summaries
		It reflects the tensions mounting during the Berlin blockade and the hope of compromise.
		The Soviet representative defended the veto largely on the grounds that the proposed ending of the blockade and the introduction of the Soviet currency in Berlin were not to be simultaneous.
		Establishment of a communist "rump" government in Berlin represents a Soviet attempt to counter the 5 December elections in the western sectors and to block U.N. interference in city affairs.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/04/documents/cia.html (1353 words)

	Berlin Airlift - Berlin Blockade
		With the communists beginning to notice the stark contrast between the two ways of life in Berlin, it became evident that some sort of control over their sector would have to be asserted.
		With pride and democracy at stake, the USA knew that any withdrawal from Berlin would be read as a sign of their weakness on their part and one which would end up in rather an embarrassing press conference.
		At this level of performance the blockade did not affect the city's ability to survive but the Allies knew that if the airlift became a permanent arrangement and no satisfactory solution to the situation was reached, they would lose some face.
	www.berlinfo.com /Traveltime/Sights/sights/divided_city/hist.htm (711 words)

	Town of Berlin, Maryland
		Berlin is noted as the birthplace of Stephen Decatur, the 19th century naval hero.
		Downtown Berlin was transported back to the turn of the century complete with dirt roads, horses and carriages, and period costumes.
		The population of Berlin as of the 1990 census was 2,686 and current estimates place the population at about 3,000.
	www.berlin.sailorsite.net (516 words)

	ipedia.com: Berlin Blockade Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The French, German, and British sectors of Berlin were deep within the Soviet occupation zones, and thus a focal point of tensions corresponding to the breakdown of the U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance.
		The Berlin blockade had its roots in 1945 and 1946 when the breakdown of the Four Power Allied Control Council rendered the reunification of postwar Germany impossible.
		The three major Berlin airfields involved were Tempelhof, in the American Sector, Gatow in the British and Tegel in the French.
	www.ipedia.com /berlin_blockade.html (969 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Berlin Blockade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was in this atmosphere that the Berlin crisis arose.
		Berlin was located completely within the eastern side of Germany which was occupied by the Russians.
		On may 12, 1949 Stalin lifted the blockade and the Cold War was underway.
	www.historywiz.com /berlinblockade.htm (240 words)

	AllRefer.com - Berlin Blockade Information
		The closing of entry to Berlin from the west by Soviet Forces from June 1948 to May 1949.
		In 1961 East Berlin was sealed off with the construction of the Berlin Wall.
		Berlin was well within Soviet-occupied East Germany, but the city, like the whole of Germany, was divided into four occupational zones, under the jurisdiction of the Allied Control Council.
	www.allrefer.com /berlin-blockade (319 words)

	Berlin: Segment Summaries and Discussion Questions
		Berlin, lying 110 miles inside the Russian zone, is likewise divided into four sections, with each of the four powers controlling one section.
		Examine the map of Germany and Berlin and predict what might cause the allies to have conflicts of interests in Berlin.
		The Berlin crisis results in the formation of two separate governments - the Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the German Democratic Republic in the East.
	learning.turner.com /cnn/coldwar/berlin/brln_dis.html (847 words)

	Blockade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blockades are the cornerstone to nearly all military campaigns and the tool of choice for economic warfare on an opposing nation.
		Blockades can take any number of forms from a simple garrison of troops along a main roadway to utilizing dozens or hundreds of surface combatant ships in securing a harbor, denying its use to the enemy, and even in cutting off or jamming broadcast signals from radio or television.
		Blockade and the right to establish it is granted to belligerents under the traditional laws of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blockade (844 words)

	Juni, LuftbrÃ¼cke, fÃ¼r, WÃ¤hrungsreform, lag, konnte Berlin-Blockade
		Da Berlin immer noch ein groÃes TrÃ¼mmerfeld war, in dem etwa 2,2 Millionen Menschen lebten, darunter 8000 alliierte Soldaten mit ihren AngehÃ¶rigen, war es vollstÃ¤ndig von der Belieferung von auÃen abhÃ¤ngig.
		Der Berliner BÃ¼rgermeister Ernst Reuter wurde zum Symbol fÃ¼r den Widerstandswillen der Berliner BevÃ¶lkerung.
		In Folge der Blockade wurde in West-Berlin die Bevorratung von Nahrungsmitteln, Rohstoffen und anderen lebensnotwendigen GÃ¼tern fÃ¼r die BevÃ¶lkerung, spÃ¤ter als Senatsreserve bezeichnet, angeordnet.
	www.dbilink.de /Berlin-Blockade.html (903 words)

	Berlin Blockade
		One of the first events of the Cold War was the Berlin blockade and airlift of 1948–49.
		Some restrictions were placed on links between Berlin and western zones, but the Soviet side was ready to supply food to all Berlin.
		After Berlin, the USA and the USSR realised that they were in a competition for world domination.
	www.johndclare.net /cold_war9.htm (691 words)

	The American Experience \| Race for the Superbomb \| Berlin Blockade
		The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War.
		The Soviet leadership responded to the Western allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.
		Not only did the blockade turn out to be totally ineffective, it ended up backfiring on the Soviets in other ways.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html (338 words)

	Budget Hotels Berlin, Cheap Accommodation Berlin, Berlin Apartments
		There aren’t so many non-stop flights to Berlin from abroad, so depending on which airline you choose to fly with, a stopover in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris or London is quite likely.
		All 3 of Berlin’s airports are accessible by railway or bus.
		Tegel connects with the Mitte district by the JetExpressBus TXL and the CityWest district by bus X9 or 109.
	www.berlin-stay.com /en/transport.html (206 words)

	The World in Photos - Europe - Germany - Berlin - Berlin Blockade
		The World in Photos - Europe - Germany - Berlin - Berlin Blockade
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