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What was NATO's role in 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.
In response to the blockade of Berlin the US and Great Britain?
Began to airlift supplies to Berlin (:A+
What action was it called when the Soviets blocked the Allies' access to Berlin and the US had to airlift in supplies?
The Berlin Airlift.
What is the population of Berlin during the Berlin Airlift-Blockade?
The population of West Berlin at the time of the blockade and airlift (1948-49) was about 2 million.
What happened to the Berlin blockade in 1948?
The Berlin Airlift
Is the Berlin airlift the same as the Berlin blockade?
No. The Soviets instituted the Berlin blockade, so the allies initiated the Berlin airlift to get supplies to civilians inside the blockaded city.
What was the outcome of the Berlin Airlift in May 1949?
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.
What was the significance of the Berlin blockade and the Berlin airlift?
The Berlin Blockade escalated the Cold War by showing that the Soviet Union did not want Germany to be a independent, unified country. Because West Berliners were cut off from the rest of the capitalist world, they needed food to be flown in by Allied planes. It is also significant because of the "candy bombers" (Germans who were children back then still remember pilots dropping sweets during their supply runs).
Do you still use the Berlin airlift today?
No the Berlin airlift ended 1990.
US and British supply of necessities to Berlin?
Berlin Airlift
What was Operation Vittles?
It was a Berlin airlift.
Who was the president during the Berlin airlift?
Harry Truman was the president when the airlift foiled the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
