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Start of the Berlin Blockade

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24 June 1948,

The Berlin Blockade begins. The Soviet Union closed the land borders under its control to the United States, the United Kingdom and France as a result of the monetary conflict that the Western powers wanted to impose. Until May 1949, supplies from the western section had to be transported by plane.

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