After WW2 the "Iron Curtain" isolated West Berlin form the "free" part of Germany and the Allies (Lead by the US) flew food into West Berlin so as to prevent it falling to the communists.
The U.S.S.R. did not have a president. The leader of the country was the General Secretary of the Communist Party, which was Joseph Stalin at the time of the Berlin Airlift.
Not so much NATO's role in the Berlin Airlift, but the Berlin Airlift in the role of the forming of NATO is more important.
Began to airlift supplies to Berlin (:A+
The Berlin Airlift.
The population of West Berlin at the time of the blockade and airlift (1948-49) was about 2 million.
The Berlin Airlift
No. The Soviets instituted the Berlin blockade, so the allies initiated the Berlin airlift to get supplies to civilians inside the blockaded city.
The Berlin Airlift proved to the USSR the US would not let Berlin be cut off. The USSR wanted to starve Berlin into joining them.
No the Berlin airlift ended 1990.
Berlin Airlift
It was a Berlin airlift.
Harry Truman was the president when the airlift foiled the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.