May 12, 1949 (Year of the OX, April 15), the lifting of the Berlin blockade. The first car to reach the




open from Berlin to Hanover In 1949 May 12, 2011 morning, the city of Berlin cheers erupted, because within a year for the first time at midnight after the lights still brightly lit. Rumble between to vehicles on the highway connecting Berlin and British occupation zones. Of extreme fatigue airport staff are relieved. The end of the blockade of Berlin. The Berlin people feel they thwarted a Russian conspiracy. (TodayinHistory.cn)
Russia in June 1949 blockade of the city to protest against the so-called Western allies intransigence on the issue of the future of Berlin and Germany. (TodayinHistory.cn) held on at the United Nations in New York after negotiations, the Soviet Union, the end of the blockade. The Russians also agreed to participate in the new Final Four foreign ministers' meeting, no longer opposed to the establishment of an independent West Germany, to give up the whole city of Berlin plans to use only one currency. Western allies and the Russians also agreed to give the Berlin people more autonomy, but they still strict control over security, external relations and polity. (Lssjt.cn)
the Russians blockade of the gap opened by the allies of air, this action is the blockade began to take a well pay a high price for normal transport, to keep the plane in the air, the Allies spent $ 200 million, and 55 people were killed in the air crash.
airlift personnel to celebrate the victory of their air bridge
American car for more than a year for the first time bound for East Berlin from West Berlin