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The Berlin Airlift | Timeline The Berlin Airlift 1945
February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, 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.
March: American forces capture a bridge across the Rhine River and enter Germany.
April 12: Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman becomes president.
April 21: The Red Army of the Soviet Union reaches Berlin.
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