Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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- Created on: 12-02-21 07:18
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- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- Tensions
- Attempts at Unity
- 1948, Britain and USA merged their zones and ceased reparations to start rebuilding German industry
- Bizonia
- France joined in Apr 1949 to create trizonia
- 1948, Britain and USA merged their zones and ceased reparations to start rebuilding German industry
- Currency reform
- The West created a separate currency - the deutschmark - for west Germany
- The USSR responded by making their own currency - the ostmark - for East Germany
- Attempts at Unity
- The Berlin Blockade
- Stalin wanted to prevent a West German state and so applied pressure by blocking all supply routes to West Berlin
- The allies responded by supplying the city by air - sending in 8000 tons a day by Feb
- Bombers were also placed in England as a threat to prevent retaliation
- June 1948 - May 1949
- Tensions
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