Conflict over Germany
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- Created on: 19-04-20 06:34
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- Topic 4
- American zone
- Organized free elections in its zone
- USA merged with UK to form Bizonia in 1947
- British zone
- Prioritized economic recovery with the aid of the USA
- French zone
- Supported the creation of the two separate German states with western Germany allied between UK USA and France
- Soviet zone
- Merged communist and social democrats into the German socialist unity party to spread communist influence
- Land reform
- Nationalization of industry
- Imposed compulsory Russian language in schools within their zone
- The Berlin Blockade & Airlift
- Began on June 26th 1948
- airlifts began after stalin blocked all roads and railways into the Soviet zone
- Planes arrived every 2-3 minutes with supplies for the West Berlin population
- Berliners lived on dried potatoes, powdered eggs and cans of meat during the winter
- 13,000 tonnes where brought into Berlin on April 16th 1949 even though 6,000 tonnes was he minimum required
- They gradually built up a reserve off supplies
- The western states in Berlin was a beacon of capitalism
- It posed a great threat to Stalins plans for Germany
- The formation on N.A.T.O
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NATO was a form of political defence
- USSR made the Warsaw pact in retaliation with the Eastern European communist countries
- American zone
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