The Berlin Blockade, 1948
•Began with currency reforms in West Germany
•Russians block the transportation routes into Berlin
•Allies had to decide to give up Berlin or make other plans
•War was an option
*completely surrounded by communism
*Half of Berlin was democratic
•Russians block the transportation routes into Berlin
•Allies had to decide to give up Berlin or make other plans
•War was an option
*completely surrounded by communism
*Half of Berlin was democratic
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Summary: The Russians blocked all the transportations to Berlin causing all the resources to be cut off. The US decided to airlift all the resources in to Berlin, defeating the communist idea.
The Berlin Airlift, 1948
•Instead the US decided on a massive airlift to supply the western half of the city
•One aircraft lands every two minutes for fifteen months
•It became a public relations victory and a show of US industrial might
•Example of the Truman Doctrine
•One cause for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organziation (NATO)
*Everything had to be flown in
*Eastern half was still worse
•One aircraft lands every two minutes for fifteen months
•It became a public relations victory and a show of US industrial might
•Example of the Truman Doctrine
•One cause for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organziation (NATO)
*Everything had to be flown in
*Eastern half was still worse