In 1945 The United Kingdom and United States began airlifting supplies into West-Berlin.
The day before the Soviet Union imposed a blockade of Berlin in retaliation for what it saw as a threat to their authority of East Germany.
After World War II Germany was under strict control. The country was divided into four sections and the governance of these sections were allocated to each of the main Allied powers, the United Kingdom, United States, USSR and France. In addition the German capital city of Berlin was also divided and governed by each of the four Nations. Soon after the capitalist western nations of the UK, US and France discussed merging their divisions into one larger division. With similar political views it would make governance easier and take fewer resources however the section governed by communist Soviet Union felt that this amalgamation into a larger division was a threat to their own. On the 20th of June the Western Nations also introduced a single currency (the deutsche mark) to their areas in preparation for their culmination. With the capital city of Berlin situated within the communist controlled section, the Soviet Union initiated a blockade on the 24th of June 1948 in a bid to prevent the union of the capitalist Germany. On this day the United Kingdom and United States began flying in supplies to Berlin. The blockade lasted 11 months but the continuous airlifted supplies kept the people of Berlin going. The blockade ended on the 12th of May 1949 without success and the Western areas were united as the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or BRD) on the 23rd of May 1949. Shortly after, on the 7th of October 1949, the Soviet controlled side or Eastern side became the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR) with control of the capital city of Berlin also split accordingly.
In 1945 the United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
Fifty of the original fifty-one members signed the charter on this day with Poland, the remaining original member, signing later this year. Once the five permanent members of the Security Council (the United Kingdom, United States, Russian Federation, France and China) had ratified the Charter it came into effect on the 24th of October 1945.
The League of Nations was established on the 10th of January 1920 with the main goal of preventing any future world wars. It had a total of 58 member nations but with the outbreak of World War II on the 3rd of September (when War was declared) the League of Nations had failed its main objective.
The United Nations was set up in order to replace the failed League of Nations and was founded on the 24th of October 1945 when the Charter came into effect.
The League of Nations was dissolved on the 20th of April 1946 lasting just 26 years.
