1949 in military history

treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO

blockade on Berlin imposed by the USSR from 1948 to 1949

The RDS-1 (), also known as First Lightning (), was the first nuclear weapons test that was conducted by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m. Kazakhstan Time (decree time) (UTC+06:00), at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and yielded 22 kilotons of TNT.

name given by Berliners to the Western Allied transport aircraft

US Cold War incident involving funding and policy dispute about the US Navy

United States law, part of the Marshall Plan