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jan 1, 1948 - Berlin Airlift

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Joseph Stalin cut off West Berlin from West Germany. This was in response to America trying to unify Western Germany under one democratic government and one capitalist economic system. Truman's response was to airlift food and supplies to Western Germany for a year.

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jan 1, 1948
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~ 77 years ago