February 15, 1949
America's U.N. delegate, Philip Jessup, begins talks with his Soviet counterpart, Jacob Malik.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Today in the Life of the Berlin Airlift
Road to Berlin Airlift
February 1946
The American foreign affairs adviser in post in Moscow, George Kennan, composes an 8,000-word "long telegram" laying out his understanding of the Soviet world view. Kennan's telegram helps shape U.S. foreign policy. George Kennan is best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
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Road to Berlin Airlift
February 4 – 11, 1945.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin into American, British, French, and Russian zones.
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Today in the Life of the Berlin Airlift
January 31, 1949.
More than 170,000 tons of supplies have been airlifted this month, a new record. More than 20 airlift personnel have also died in January.
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In the aftermath of the Berlin Airlift
January 18, 1951
Ernst Reuter is reelected mayor of West Berlin.
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Today in the Life od the Berlin Airlift
January 1949
The first American airlift participants begin rotating back to their home bases. The British begin evacuating Berlin children in planes that have unloaded their cargo.
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