" The success of the airlift eventually caused the Soviets to lift their blockade in May 1949.

Bacque argued that this alleged mass murder was a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.

Perón restored diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and, in 1949, articulated a " third way " as his foreign policy doctrine, in hopes of avoiding friction with either superpower, while opening the door to grain sales to the perennially shortage-stricken Soviets.

In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first fission bomb, and in 1950 President Truman ended the H-bomb debate by ordering the Los Alamos designers to build one.

The West was shocked by the speed with which the Soviets were able to stage their first nuclear test, " Joe 1 ", on August 29, 1949.

The ruins of both the old and new Chancellery buildings were levelled by the Soviets between 1945 and 1949, but the bunker largely survived, although some areas were partially flooded.

The ruins of both the old and new Chancellery buildings were levelled by the Soviets between 1945 and 1949 but the bunker largely survived, although some areas were partially flooded.

The blockade lasted almost a year, ending when the Soviets once again allowed ground access to West Berlin on 11 May 1949.

The widespread fear of Communism became even more acute after the Soviets ' explosion of an atomic bomb in 1949 and discovery of Soviet espionage.

The United States held a nuclear monopoly from the end of World War II until 1949, when the Soviets detonated their first nuclear device.

The revelation in 1947 that the Soviet Union had produced a reverse-engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Tupolev Tu-4 ( NATO reporting name " Bull "), which could reach the continental United States in a one-way attack, followed by the Soviets developing their own atomic bomb in 1949, produced considerable anxiety.

By the spring of 1949, USAFE announced that there were incidents of Soviets firing at cargo aircraft with anti-aircraft artillery, and of barrage balloons being allowed to float within the corridors.

From 1948 to 1953 Călinescu was mistrusted and marginalized, despite being named to the Academy of the Romanian People's Republic in 1949 ; even after destalinization began in the Soviet Union in 1953, the Romanian establishment continued to favor the " wooden-tongued ," socialist realist models the Soviets had begun to abandon.

In 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and was not released until 1949.

In great part because of her overtly pro-Chinese Communist sympathies she was arrested in Moscow in 1949 and charged by the Soviets with espionage.

Although the Soviets showed increased interest in the cause of arms control after they became a nuclear power in 1949, and particularly after the death of Stalin in 1953, the issue of the Soviet Union submitting to international inspection was always a thorny one upon which many attempts at nuclear arms control were stalled.

Nominally, the investigation was into interference with negotiations to devalue the Austrian schilling in November 1949 as the Soviets had apparently been profiting from the black market.

But Sheedy was unable to pay his bills and in 1949 turned his masters over to his record stamping company, the Circle Record Company, owned by Max and Sol Weiss.

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

Aged and anxious, Abdullah bin Jassim turned to the British, promised to abdicate, and agreed, among other things, to an official British presence in Qatar in exchange for recognition and support for Ali bin Abdullah as ruler in 1949.

( Other comedians turned this into a punchline: " I sold mine, my uncle sold his ...") After Berle's show began, set sales more than doubled, reaching two million in 1949.

Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall.

( Surprisingly, a 1914 model turned a lap in practice at Indy in 1949, yet it failed to qualify.

Edwin Schallert for the Los Angeles Times praised Davis's performance in Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), while observing, " the mimics will have more fun than a box of monkeys imitating Miss Davis ", and Dorothy Manners at the Los Angeles Examiner said of her performance in the poorly received Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ), " no night club caricaturist has ever turned in such a cruel imitation of the Davis mannerisms as Bette turns on herself in this one ".

Blackpool finished seventh in 1949 – 50, and though they were never title contenders vast crowds still turned out home and away to witness the entertaining football they displayed.

On May 14, 1949, Fort McKinley was turned over to the Philippine government.

In 1949, he applied to be the Chair of History at the newly created Keele University, but was turned down because of his Communist Party affiliations.

Clampett left Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1946 and turned his attention to television, creating the famous puppet show Time for Beany in 1949.

In 1949, Clampett turned his attentions to television, where he created the famous puppet show Time for Beany.

However, after the Chinese communists reached the Northern border of Vietnam in 1949, the conflict turned into a conventional war between two armies equipped with modern weapons supplied by the United States and the Soviet Union.

In 1947 Harryhausen was hired as an assistant animator on what turned out to be his first major film, Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ).

In 1949 the club turned professional, and changed its name to Cambridge United in 1951.

In 1947, the USAAF turned over the airfield to the United States Navy, which consolidated its facilities with those at the closing Harmon Air Force Base in 1949, and operated Naval Air Station, Agana until it was closed by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission.

In 1949, he ordered 14 Catholic tribesmen in the Mirdita region executed after underground fighters aligned with conservative Albanian political exiles working as Italian Navy espionage agents executed Bardhok Biba, a relative of Catholic tribal leader Gjon Markagjoni who had turned against the tribal system to become a ranking Communist district official.

She made a famous escape on 30 July 1949, later turned into a feature film Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst.

But the disappointing film version, directed by George Cukor at MGM Elstree in 1949, instead starred the miscast Spencer Tracy, who turned Holt, an unscrupulous English businessman, into a blustering Canadian expatriate.

When Yugoslavia turned to the West, an agreement was made with Swissair to open the Belgrade-Zürich route, which was inaugurated on 24 August 1949.

The SPD would very plausibly have won an election in 1945 ; by 1949 the tide had turned.

* Major Greenwood ( 1880 – 1949 ), epidemiologist and statistician-Sir Leonard Hill gave him his first job after graduation as an assistant physiologist before he turned to his later career, and he later became a neighbour of the Hill family in Loughton

This series of 10 scenes, or " blocks ", was first staged in a workshop by Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in 1949, and later turned into a 1953 Broadway production directed by Kazan with assistant by Anna Sokolow and starring Eli Wallach ( as Kilroy ), Frank Silvera ( as Gutman ), Joseph Anthony ( as Casanova ), Jo Van Fleet ( as Marguerite " Camille " Gautier ), Jennie Goldstein ( as the Gypsy ), Barbara Baxley ( as Esmeralda ), and David J. Stewart ( as the Baron ).