The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
Notes
- Began with currency reforms in West German
- Russians block the transportation routes into Berlin
- Allies had to decide to give up Berlin or make other plans
- War was an option
- 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)
- Instead the US decided on a massive airlift to supply the western half of the city
Summary
As for the split of Germany and the Berlin blockade the transport of food and supplies where cut off. As the Russians blocked the tracks the Americans had a better plan to get these people supplies. Instead of the train they used aircraft's one aircraft landing every two minutes, this happened for 15 months.
Subjunctive Question
Would the city have been given up if they supplies didn't keep coming?
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