berlin blockade

• When was the Berlin Blockade?

  1948
• What happened during the blockade?

  -stalin blocked all land routes to Berlin

  -left West Berlin without resources

  -Operation Vittles: Berlin Airlift

  -flew in supplies

  -Stalin couldn't shoot down the planes without starting nuclear war

  -Year later the blockade was lifted
• Impacts of the blockade

  -Stalin seen as agressive

  -peacful response to the blockade by the West

  -propoganda war won by the West

  -huge humiliation for the East
• when was the Berlin blockade?

  1948
• • stalin shut of land routes to show division in Germany wont work
  • Berlin run short of food and cant communicate with the west
  • stalin thought the west would give up control of berlin
  • this was challenging Truman; couldn’t ignore because of his speech on fighting communism
• | operation vittles

  • flew food, coals along allied zones
  • Built new runways for supplies
  • Ordinary citizens helped unload & hand out
  • USA able to supply 1000 tonnes a day
  • by January 1949, they had given 170,000 tonnes
• • may 9th, 1949: stalin gave up
  • No casualties