what were the circumstances surrounding the berlin airlift
The Berlin Blockade (1 April 1948 â 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of postâWorld War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies ' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.y the spring of 1949, the airlift was clearly succeeding, and by April it was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail. On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin.