This analysis was written by U.S. News and World Report columnist Michael Barone. Sixty years ago this month, the top story in campaign year 1948 was not the big poll lead of Republican nominee Thomas ...

On this day in 1948, Soviet authorities in Berlin implemented an order restricting both military and civilian traffic between the American, British and French occupation zones in post-World War II ...

Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin Blockade.

Berlin, Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: An American gets his monthly ration of five gallons at the one service station in Berlin still serving privately owned vehicles. The image is one of a series of 9 shot ...

BERLIN, June 26, 1948 (UP) - Lieut. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British military governor, formally protested today to Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky against the Soviet blockade of Berlin and asked that ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent ...