Berlin, the German capital city, which was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany, also was divided into occupation zones. One of the defining events of […] ...

Germany was divided into four occupation zones and Berlin was divided into four sectors, with each superpower, The United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, responsible for the ...

The closest British or American zone of occupation in western Germany was 110 miles to the west. The Soviets had established a “people’s republic” in their zone — the German Democratic Republic, with ...

During the 15-month Berlin Airlift, 277,804 flights delivered 2,325,809 tons of material in one of history’s largest humanitarian relief operations.

At midnight on Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed the borders around West Berlin. Germany had been divided into four occupation zones in the aftermath of World War II, each administered by an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall, the ultimate symbol of the dehumanizing nature of Soviet communism, came down on Nov. 9, 1989. ... French and Russian occupation zones for temporary postwar military rule.

There can be no doubt that the Russians deliberately created the Berlin crisis. ... they had heard news about what the new currency could buy in the western occupation zones.

Read CNN’s Berlin Wall Fast Facts and learn more about the symbol of the Cold War and East/West relations. The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989.