1948 Berlin Blockade
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- Created on: 04-05-17 07:49
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- 1948 Berlin Blockade
- Germany was a key battleground in the Cold War's blocked access to the war zones
- A response to the new currency
- Railways, canals and roads were blockaded
- Truman ordered millions of tones of supplies to be flown in
- Stalin ended the blockade in 1949
- Significance
- Failure for Stalin
- Demonstrated that neither countries were prepared to risk war
- World powers remained in Berlin
- NATO established as a result
- Confirmed military division
- NATO stablised Europe
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