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sep 5, 1948 - Berlin Airlift

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Russia's Joseph Stalin cut off West Berlin from West Germany. He did this in response to America trying to unify Western Germany under one capitalist economic system. Truman's response was to airlift food and supplies to Western Berlin for a year until Stalin gave up.

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sep 5, 1948
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~ 77 years ago