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President Truman responded to the blockade by sending planeloads of much-needed supplies to West Berlin. For more information on the Berlin Airlift consult the online Truman Library and Museum by following the link to the left.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoSo the Soviet Union tried to starve the City of West Berlin, The allied powers; United States, and Great Britain got to work flying in all the supplies needed for operation of an entire city. Coal, food, medicine, coffee among other things. Tegel and Tempelhof airports were the only airfields in Berlin located in the Western Sectors of the city. The Blockcade was started when East Germans shut off all highway, and road access to West Berlin. Stalin was Soviet premier at the time, he actually was pulling the strings.
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∙ 14y agoAmerica reacted with revulsion, but there was not much which could be done except to offer escapees sanctuary in the West. There were several escapes in the early days of the Berlin Wall, and this contributor has seen films of two of them. In one, several East German kids ducked through a gap in the barbed wire, and one girl snagged her face on the wire and was thrown back. The boy behind her caught her and pushed her through the wire, and although her face was badly gashed, she was still smiling to be out of Communist-controlled East Berlin. In the other film, an East German soldier who was supposed to be preventing escapes suddenly dropped his AK-47 and jumped easily over the wall, which was at that time only a barricade. As the years went by the Berlin Wall was improved and escapes became fewer, but America and the rest of the Free World continued to revile the Berlin Wall.
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∙ 12y agoFollowing the imposition of the Berlin Blockade by the USSR, in an attempt to force the Allies from Berlin, on 24 June 1948, the US and British (who were already airlifting supplies for their troops in Berlin and had already conducted a "little Lift" for the civilian population earlier that year following Soviet restrictions on rail and road movement), decided to implement Operation Vittles to supply the city. The Air Lift began on 25 June 1948.
Over 4,000 tons of supplies per day were required by the Berlin population during the airlift. To achieve this, the United States Air Force, Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth nations flew over 200,000 flights providing 13,000 tons of food daily to Berlin in an operation lasting almost a year. By the spring of 1949, the effort was clearly succeeding, and by April the airlift was delivering more cargo than had previously flowed into the city by rail.
The success of the Airlift was humiliating to the Soviets, who had repeatedly claimed it could never work. When it became clear that it did work, the blockade was lifted in May. Even with the lifting of the blockade, the western Aliies continued with the Air Lift, to build up a comfortbale 3-month supply in the city, should the Soviets attempt to blockade the city again.
Despite the Soviet blockade of Berlin ending on 12 May, 1949, the Berlin Air Lift continued, in order to build up supplies in case of a further blockade. The airlift officially ended on 30 September 1949, after 16 months.
Following the blockade, the Soviets refused to return to the Allied Control Council in Berlin, rendering the four-power occupation authority of Berlin, set up at the Potsdam conference, useless.
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∙ 13y agoBy just doing it ,i mean look a your notes
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∙ 12y agoWe flew supplies into West Berlin. It was called the Berlin Airlift.
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Because the three essentials of American policy regarding Berlin were not affected.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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Because the three essentials of American policy regarding Berlin were not affected.
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because the wall was in the city Berlin
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Because Americans are very emotional.
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It marked the end of the cold war
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