Berlin Blockade & Airlift

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The Berlin Blockade & Airlift

Only just started properly revising and I found that this is incredibly useful.

Please watch this before the history exam as it contains detailed information.

KEY FACTS:

In 1948-

1949 America and the British sent

supplies to the people in Berlin literally every 3 minutes day and night.

Berlin is 90 miles into the Soviet Zone.

June 1948 Stalin's main aim is to force the west out of Berlin.

Yalta Conference 1945 - This is when there was a decision placed that the four allies (Britain, France, America and the Soviet Union) split Germany, and Berlin, into 4 zones of occupation.

June 1948 - Britain, France and America unite their zones into a new country called West Germany, with West Berlin as its capital.

23rd June 1948 - Stalin cut off all road and rail links to West Berlin, starting the Berlin Blockade.

The West supplied West Berlin by air. This was known as the Berlin Airlift.

12th May 1949 - after 318 days Stalin abandoned the Blockade, but the hostility between East and West was far from over.

Also a good video to watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/berlinblockade_video.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jy3TKF4wSg&t=14s (Embed)

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Berlin Airlift

DID YOU KNOW? 43 Airmen died, the planes crashed

BERLIN is at the CENTRE of the Cold War - the place where East meets West.

Major acts like this made the children want to be with the WEST not the EAST. That's exactly why t

There was major trauma with the sounds that the air and this traumatized the children and the adults.

The WEST grew a relationship with the German children through the Berlin Airlift.

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Berlin Blockade

10/2/2017

In 1945, the Allies decided to split Germany into four zones of occupation.

The capital, Berlin, was also split into four zones also. - but it was 90 miles into the USSR zone so they could easily take more control.

The USSR took huge reparations from its zone in eastern Germany, but Britain, France and America tried to improve conditions in their zones.

In June 1948, Britain, France and America united their zones into a new country, West Germany. On 23 June 1948, they introduced a new currency, which they said would help trade.

The next day, Stalin cut off all rail and road links to west Berlin - the Berlin Blockade. The west saw this as an attempt to starve Berlin into surrender, so they decided to supply west Berlin by air. #Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Blockade lasted 318 days. During this time, 275,000 planes transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin's Templehof airport.

On 12 May 1949, Stalin abandoned the blockade.

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