Western countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the British, American and French zones of Berlin, a city … This event was one of the first international crises to occur during the Cold War, which was the competition for … Soviet aim of the Berlin Blockade, as it became known, was to force Western Allied forces to surrender control of Berlin …
