Berlin Crisis
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- Berlin Crisis
- Airlift
- WHY?
- Stalin didn't like trizonia, it was like the West ganging up on him
- Stalin wasn't involved in this decision--> furious
- June 1948: creation of the Deutschmark which meant the West had economic unity.
- Stalin wasn't involved in this decision--> furious
- Forced the East into poverty
- 'Official' reason was to repair roads and tracks
- Stalin didn't like trizonia, it was like the West ganging up on him
- RESPONSE
- Operation Vittles: Western allies flew food, coal and essential through air corridors
- Soviet Union liftent he blockade on the 9th of May '49
- People in W. Berlin created a new airport in Tegel
- The peak was 1/'49 when 170000 tonnes of supplies were sent into Berlin
- Stalin lost th propaganda war: The West looked peaceful, the East looked aggressive
- Soviet Union liftent he blockade on the 9th of May '49
- People in W. Berlin created a new airport in Tegel
- The peak was 1/'49 when 170000 tonnes of supplies were sent into Berlin
- Operation Vittles: Western allies flew food, coal and essential through air corridors
- WHY?
- The Wall
- WHY?
- Tensions between the West and the Soviet Union.
- Skilled workers were moving en masse to the West: August 1961: 40000 E. Germans moved in 1 day.
- West Berlin had been built up after WWII, whereas the Soviet Union had damage and worse jobs
- IMPACT
- People killed while trying to escape in no mans land which was covered in land mines: Estimated 130 people killed
- Jobs given up on opposite sides of the wall
- Protests in E. Germany and the West were disappointed as they had hoped for reunification.
- Relations got worse, then improved/stabilised
- stopped refugees leaving
- WHY?
- Airlift
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