In 1948 the USSR blockaded West Berlin to force the Allies to handover the city to Russia. The U.S. and Britain responded with a daily airlift of supplies that eventually compelled Stalin to lift the blockade. The Truman Presidential Library retells the story with photographs, narratives, and important documents.
Primary and secondary sources from the Cold War era, many focused on the Vietnam War. Maintained by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.