The Berlin Blockade, 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
-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
Berlin Airlift, 1948
-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 of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
-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 of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)