Berlin Airlift

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what started the berlin blockade?
stalin and the western powers disagreed about whether germany should be crippled or rebuilt, the western powers introduced the deutschmark and
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why did stalin erect the berlin blockade?
he wanted to force the western powers out of berlin because he did not want a rich west germany compared with a poor east
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why else?
he wanted to test strength of the allies and if they attacked the blockade he would have the right to attack them back
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what happened on 24th june 1948?
the soviet union blockaded road and rail links
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how did usa britain and france react?
they flew in food fuel building supplies and machinery
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when did stalin call off the blockade?
may 1949
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what were the consequences?
germany split into east germany and west germany, america set up NATO,
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what did the ussr set up in response?
the warsaw pact
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why did stalin erect the berlin blockade?

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he wanted to force the western powers out of berlin because he did not want a rich west germany compared with a poor east

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why else?

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what happened on 24th june 1948?

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how did usa britain and france react?

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