berlin blockade and airlift

• what caused the blockade

  western powers announced plans to create west german state

  deutschmark was inroduced
• what is the blockade

  stalin closed all road rail and canal links to west berlin

  cause british us and french troops to leave their zones
• what is the airlift

  truman airlifted supplies into berlin

  13,000 tonnes in one day

  may 1949 stalin lifted the blockade
• consequences

  increased rivalry and distrust

  made soviet union look weak and aggressive

  US- federal republic of germany

  soviet union- german democratic republic

  NATO was formed