The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 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 •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)
•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)
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was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city.In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin.
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