Berlin Blockade & Airlift 1948-49
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- Created on: 28-05-13 16:45
Berlin Blockade & Airlift 1948-49 |
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Overall summaryAmerica responded by doing an airlift of supplies for 10 months, although there were still shortages, the airlift was successful as after coping for 10 months, on the 12th May 1949 Stalin called off the blockade. He had failed to starve the Allies out of Berlin. That evening Berliners put on evening dress and danced in the streets. Truman saw the crisis as a victory. West Berlin had survived and stood up to the Soviet Union. For Stalin it was a defeat and a humiliation, although this was not what the Soviet people were led to believe (they made up a story showing the US as the 'bad guys'). |
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