berlin blockade and airlift
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The Berlin Blockade & Airlift The First Showdown
The Berlin Blockade & Airlift
The First Showdown
The Partition of Germany
The lack of cooperation between Stalin and the west contributed to severe economic hardship in Germany
Economic reform and rebuilding was greatly needed
By 1948 it looked as though the East-West division of Germany would be permanent
The three western powers prepared for the creation of West Germany
Currency Reform
The western powers initiated economic cooperation and a new currency, the Deutschmark, in their sectors
The Soviets responded with their own new currency in their sector, including Berlin
So the west brought the Deutschmark into west Berlin
Economic disparity within Berlin
the west began to improve, the east did not
The Blockade
The Soviets announced that the west had no business interfering in the east, and they closed the roads, railways, and waterways that linked West Berlin to western zones
But the Americans cannot abandon Berlin CONTAINMENT
If the Truman Doctrine was to be applied seriously, they must keep Berlin
The Domino Theory if Berlin falls, what will be next?
The Airlift
The USA decided, instead, to begin a massive airlift to supply West Berlin with everything that it needed food, fuel, medicine, necessities
The only way the Soviets could stop it would be to shoot down one of the aircraft an act of war
For 15 months, the planes supplied 2.5 million Berliners with all necessities
A plane landed in Berlin every 2 minutes
Stalin concluded the blockade was not working and backed down
1960s East German Poster about the 1948 Western airlift.
The text reads: "Air bridge to West Berlin--a peace-endangering provocation of the imperialist Western powers."
The Formation of NATO
April 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Product of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Blockade told the Americans that they had to be at the ready in case of further military showdown with the Soviets
Americans stationed over a million men overseas and occupied 675 overseas bases
Original Members
Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the USA.
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