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	BERLIN,
		Claiming that Berlin had lost its status as the capital of a united Germany and should therefore be incorporated into the Soviet Zone, the USSR tried to force the Western powers out of their respective sectors of the city by blockading the land routes to that part of Berlin.
		East Berlin, which in 1953 was the scene of an uprising of desperate workers, also made major improvements; it too was a well-known cultural center, and its government quarter was rebuilt.
		The Berlin blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel to their.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=202772 (2981 words)

	History of Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although it was the residence of the Prussian kings, Berlin's population did not greatly expand until the 19th century, mainly after becoming the capital of the German Empire in 1871.
		Berlin's unique situation as a city half-controlled by Western forces in the middle of the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany made it a natural focal point in the Cold War.
		East Germany chose Berlin (in practice, East Berlin) as its capital when the country was formed from the Soviet occupation zone in October 1949; however, this was rejected by the western allies, who continued to regard Berlin as an occupied city that was not legally part of any German state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Berlin (5290 words)

	Berlin, CT - History
		Berlin, Connecticut, the home of "The Yankee Peddler", is located at the geographic center of the state.
		Berlin was on the direct route from New Haven to Hartford, with taverns and inns, which were regular stagecoach stops for fresh horses, meals and sleeping accommodations.
		Berlin was proud to have one of the 75 official post offices designated by Benjamin Franklin, first Postmaster General.
	www.town.berlin.ct.us /content/534/default.aspx (939 words)

	History of Berlin
		Berlin is occupied by the Austrians (1757) and the Russians (1760).
		Ambivalence about Berlin as imperial capital was further reflected in the hap-hazard and tentative manner in which the Reich government established its physical presence in the city.
		Berlin's population growth came through large-scale immigration, not through a sudden burst of fecundity on the part of the natives.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /berlin/history.html (6259 words)

	History of the Town of Berlin, Vermont
		The Town of Berlin was chartered in June of 1763 by H. Benning Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire.
		Berlin has always been a rural community, with many farms located along the river and stream valleys, on the relatively flat land between the Berlin Pond and the Stevens Branch River, and in a few suitable highland locations.
		In the 1930s, a substantial portion of the relatively level land between the Berlin Pond and the Stevens Branch River was acquired by the State of Vermont and the E. Knapp Airport was constructed.
	www.central-vt.com /towns/history/HstBerl.htm (613 words)

	Berlin History - a look to the past - Berlin Sightseeing Tours (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlin is a relatively young city by European standards, with its origins at the end of the 12th century.
		Berlin's importance grew as the country gained in influence and it became a centre of the enlightenment in Germany.
		In West Berlin, the loss of jobs in the industrial sector was partially offset by the relocation of some government offices to the city, its transformation into an important congress and exhibition centre and by a special financial subsidy to maintain jobs in manufacturing industry.
	www.berlin-stadtfuehrung.de /berlin_history.htm (2421 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Berlin
		When the Elector Frederick II again separated the two cities and erected a fortified castle between Berlin and Kolln, on the site of the present royal residence, the inhabitants, under the leadership of Bernd Ryke, revolted, stormed the house in which the elector was accustomed to live when in Berlin, and destroyed the public records.
		In 1838 the first railway, from Berlin to Potsdam, was opened; the railway traffic increased the industrial importance of the city, and in 1844 the first large industrial exhibition of the German States belonging to the customs-union was held here.
		Ecclesiastically, Berlin belongs to the Delegation of the Mark of Brandenburg, which is under a delegate of the Prince-Bishop of Breslau; the delegate is the Provost of St. Hedwig's in Berlin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02493b.htm (1799 words)

	History of Berlin
		The determination of both the Eastern and Western blocs to hold onto Berlin was demonstrated early on during the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49, when the Soviet Union closed land access to Berlin and the Western "Raisin Bombers" flew food and fuel to the blockaded city for almost a year.
		Berlin is also a city of immigrants, and an ideological battle around issues of immigration is being fought at all levels.
		Berlin is in many ways a physical representation of many of the 20th century's major ideologies and events, events that often called into question precisely those ideas of modernity that were developed in the 19th century.
	www.noaura.com /berlin/history.html (2090 words)

	BERLIN U.S. Military Veterans Association-History
		In 1946 the Berlin garrison force was organized as the Provisional Constabulary Squadron and was augmented by one infantry battalion of the 78th Division, an MP battalion and service troops.
		During the Berlin Airlift, the organization remained basically the same, augmented by such units as were needed to assist in airlift operations, both Army and Air Force.
		When the Berlin Wall opened in November 1989, it was a tribute to the dedication of the soldiers and airmen of the Berlin Command.
	www.berlinveterans.com /history.htm (703 words)

	History of Berlin, New York
		Berlin village was formerly known as North Berlin, and is sometimes still called by that name.
		The Berlin Chess club was formed by a number of prominent young residents of the village for a purpose which its name implies.
		The Methodist Episcopal church of Berlin was erected on a piece of ground given by W. Taylor in November, 1875.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/ren-berlin-ny.htm (2535 words)

	At The Beach-Berlin, Maryland History
		The village of Berlin began in the 1790s around the original, 300 acre, land grant of 1677 that became Burley Plantation.
		It is believed that the name Berlin was derived from a contraction of "Burleigh Inn" a tavern at the crossroads of the Philadelphia Post Road and Sinepuxent Road.
		In the early 1900s, Berlin was known as a pleasant rest stop for travelers on their way to the small coastal village of Ocean City.
	www.berlinmd.com /brlnhist.asp (353 words)

	Berlin History \| Berlin Property Guide
		By European standards, Berlin is a relatively new city, founded in the 13th or 14th century as a small fishing and farming town on the banks of the River Spree.
		Berlin was not only the largest industrial city in Europe but during the mid 1920s, it was also the cultural capital of the continent, Berlin was swinging.
		Berlin was the capital of Hitler’s Third Reich or Deutsches Reich, it was also the setting for one of the major events in Nazi history - the Reichstag Fire.
	www.berlinpropertyguide.com /history (1168 words)

	The History of Berlin
		Berlin, the "City that trees built is the central city of this region and is essentially a manufacturing and commercial center with a good labor market.
		William Sessions was the pioneer who opened five acres of land on the east side of the river in 1824 and came back in the spring of 1825 with his nephew to plant crops and build a log house.
		Berlin's population numbered only 45 at the time of the Civil War, a total which increased gradually for the next 20 years, topping 1,000 by 1880.
	www.sau3.org /bhs/cityhist.htm (1233 words)

	Berlin
		Berlin is the capital and the biggest city of Germany.
		Berlin was the capital of Prussia until 1945 and the capital of Germany between 1871 and 1945 and again since the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990.
		It was divided by the Berlin Wall between August 13, 1961, and November 9, 1989.
	userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de /adressen/berlin.html (199 words)

	City of Berlin, NH - Berlin History
		In 1930 Berlin was New Hampshire's fourth largest city and the largest in the northern two-thirds of the state.
		A contemporary history of Berlin observed that "Berlin in her schools as in her mills is a leader and all over the North American Continent the Berlin school system is known, named, and imitated." Finally, the city's largest employer, Brown Company, had acquired an international reputation through its research facility and its innovative products.
		As Berlin embarked on its second century, its residents had every reason be proud of its accomplishments and to anticipate continued prosperity and a bright future.
	www.berlinnh.gov /Pages/BerlinNH_WebDocs/BerlinHistory (1297 words)

	History of Berlin
		As Berlin’s arch of triumph, it was surmounted by the famous “Quadriga of Victory,” a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses.
		During the early 19th century, Berlin also began to develop as an industrial and transportation center; it was linked by a system of paved roads, by rivers (the Elbe and the Oder) and canals, and by railways to other parts of Germany and Europe.
		Hitler's schemes for Berlin were influenced by Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris; he thought of triumphal arches larger than that in Paris; a grand avenue bigger than the Champs Elysées, and a statue larger than the statue of liberty.
	www.uncp.edu /home/rwb/berlin1.htm (2503 words)

	Berlin History
		The history of Berlin is a history of triumph and tragedy.
		Berlin has also opened its doors to the world, attracting a wide range of cultural diversity (beginning with granting of religious freedom to French Hugeonots in the 17th century).
		However, Berlin was not left as a lifeless shell; instead, poltical groups of every orientation organized, fascists clashed with communists in the street, and those who could care less about politics spend every last cent (or "pfenig") on the lavish lifestyle Berlin had to offer.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/dhudson/eng3370/3370s02/lazella/anchoratl.html (1577 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Berlin
		As the 18th century drew to a close, Berlin became the center of the Haskalah, or Jewish enlightenment, which came to advocate Jewish equality and secularism.
		Berlin was universally considered a "liquidation city" – no one expected the Jews to have a future in Berlin, and thus it was assumed that all the residents would quickly emigrate.
		The Jewish Museum Berlin in the Kreuzberg district, a division of the Berlin museum, officially opened in 2001 and is notable both for its location and its contents.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/berlin.html (2470 words)

	Berlin Airlift - US Air Force Museum Cold War History Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or attempting to supply its inhabitants with the necessities of life by air, the Western Powers chose the latter course and for the next 11 months sustained the city's 2 1/2 million residents in one of the greatest feats in aviation history.
		Operation Vittles, as the airlift was unofficially named, began on June 26 when USAF C-47s carried 80 tons of food into Berlin, far less than the estimated 4,500 tons of food, coal, and other material needed daily to maintain a minimum level of existence.
		The Allied airlift had saved Berlin from Soviet takeover and had taught valuable lessons in air traffic control, aircraft maintenance, standardized loading and unloading procedures, and other aspects of sustained mass movement of cargo by air.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/postwwii/ba.htm (529 words)

	Berlin Guide Service
		Berlin remains capital of Germany, when, after the end of World War I, democracy is installed - a period later called the Weimar Republic - and when, in 1933, the Nazis seize power.
		During 28 years of separation, West Berlin is a stronghold in the middle of the Soviet sphere of influence, often scene of demonstrations and, in any case, a permanent focus of international attention.
		Today Berlin is once again the capital of reunited Germany and the city that, at times, played a decisive role in world history now gives its visitors the occasion to go on a journey through the eventful and troubled stages of its existence.
	latlon-berlin.de /en/Berlin_history.htm (893 words)

	Germany Info: Welcome: Berlin - Capital City
		It later merged with its sister city Berlin, profited from Prussia’s rise to the rank of a great power, and after the founding of the German Empire in 1871 became the political, industrial, scientific, academic and cultural center of Germany.
		In 1948-49, the Soviet Union imposed an 11-months blockade of the land routes to Berlin in an attempt to bring the people of West-Berlin to their knees and force the Western Allies to withdraw from the city.
		On October 3 1990, the unification of Germany was consummated in Berlin with a state ceremony.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/welcome/berlin/history.html (321 words)

	History of Berlin- Revolutionary Period and Weimar Republic
		According to Maercher, a Freikorps leader, the population of Berlin was kept for 10 days in terror of their lives by irresponsible elements of the Freikorps.
		Oral history research has shown that in the memory of proletarian militants (not only communists) this was a turning point, a "point of no return" in their remembrance of their total alienation from anything to do with the SPD.
		Rescinding of the occupation of Karl Liebknecht House.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /berlin/weimar.html (3893 words)

	History
		Berlin, from the first years, served as a supplier of goods and services for the developing rich farmland, which stretched south to Ripon and in the originally timber-covered areas to the north.
		One significant part of the business sector was devoted handling farm produce from the surrounding lands, another was as a wholesale center for a wide trade area, and another was centered on retail trade.
		Berlin is situated on both sides of the historic Fox River, which linked the Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers -- serving as a trail way for Marquette and Joliet during their exploration of the St. Lawrence waterway.
	www.1berlin.com /history.htm (470 words)

	The city of Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Synagogue, Siegessäule victory column, Berlin Wall
		The city of Berlin is built on a plain, so it is as flat as a pancake except for a mound where the pile of cleared rubble was covered over with grass.
		Berlin was originally the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then became the capital of a united imperial Germany when the Second Reich was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on January 18, 1871 following Prussia's victory over France.
		Berlin was the residence of Karl Marx, the son and grandson of Jewish rabbis, the man who introduced Communism to the world when he published his Communist Manifesto in 1848.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /EasternGermany/Berlin (2779 words)

	Berlin Germany.com: Hotels - History - Map
		At the heart of this leafy city, criss-crossed with Berlin hotels, restaurants, rivers and canals, is the Reichstag, the old parliament building, centrepiece of the new German capital, and the grandiose Brandenburg Gate.
		One of the most monumental structures in Eastern Berlin is the gigantic Fernsehturm or TV tower with an observation platform for unbeatable views and Alexanderplatz is the commercial and shopping hub of the former Soviet sector.
		Berlin boasts an admirable collection of museums: the Zoologischer Garten forms the beginning of the Tiergarten, a restful expanse of woodland where there is a series of museums centred on the Neue Nationalgalerie.
	www.berlin-germany.com (269 words)

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