Berlin blockade

• • After World War Two, Germany was divided up amongst the Allies. Germany had 4 occupied zones controlled by the US, France, the UK, and USSR. Similarly, Berlin (within the Soviet zone) had 4 'sectors' that were also controlled by the 4 different Allies.
  • US, Britain and France decided to unite and introduce our currency called ‘Deutschmark“. The USSR didn’t support this plan so they decided to cut off the 3 western sectors of Berlin in June 1948. They cut off road,rail and canal links from western sectors to their sectors in Berlin.
• • therefore, the only way that they could receive supplies was by air.In order to receive food, fuel, and medical supplies, all of these had to be flown in through a 20-mile wide "air corridor" during a massive airlift known as Operation Vittles. This operation lasted 11 months and involved almost 200,000 flights carrying 1.4million tons of supplies.
  • In May 1949 the Soviet realised that the blockade was not having their desired effect so they dropped the travel restrictions.
• The USA - they set up the North Atlantic Treaty organisation that involved western Allies,to insure communism didn’t spread
• The USSR formed the Warsaw pact with other eastern European countries which ended in them building the Berlin wall in 1961.
• The outcome of the Berlin blockade to the third country which is Germany was the result in division in Germany. Germany was divided into west and east. The east was a capitalist democracy and The west was a communist democracy.