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 Organization (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 Organization (NATO)
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Summary: Beginning with currency reforms the Berlin Blockade resulted in dividing berlin in half with a wall. The western half of Berlin had the Berlin Airlift where planes supplied all the goods that the western half needed.