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Title: The Berlin Crisis


1
The Berlin Crisis
  • How do the US Soviet Union fight their first
    Cold War Battle?

2
Trouble in Berlin
  • At Yalta Conf. US, Britain, Soviets decide
    Germany will be split into three zones at end of
    the war US/GB will give France a 4th zone
  • Capital city Berlin is also divided into four
    occupation zones even though it is inside the
    Soviet zone
  • US, Britain, France will allow their 3 zones of
    Germany to combine into W. Germany by Spring 1949
  • US/GB will supply City of W. Berlin (in Soviet
    Zone)
  • Truman tells West Germans not to pay Stalin
    reparation money

Harry Truman
3
The Berlin Blockade
  • Says not paying reparations is a violation of
    agreement made at Potsdam conference!
  • Installs a puppet communist govt. in Soviet
    zone creating the country of East Germany

Joseph Stalin
  • Soviets/E. Germans block road access to West
    Berlin, which is inside East Germany
  • Soviets/E. Germans no agreement for road access
  • Soviets hope US will just give up West Berlin

4
Berlin Airlift
  • US Britain claim they have a legal right to
    supply West Berlin, will airlift supplies into
    city
  • 278K flights were made (June 26-May 11)
  • 2.3 million tons of food and supplies were
    delivered
  • Stalin threatens military action, but ends
    blockade in May of 1949

5
  • After Berlin Crisis each Superpower forms a
    defensive alliance
  • US forms NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  • Soviets form Warsaw Pact

6
A miniature city is used instruct how the airlift
will work and locations that will be used.
7
US Air traffic controllers directing the airlift
8
Fueled by doughnuts, hamburgers and coffee, these
pilots at Rhein-Main flew four round trips per
day.
9
The limited load capacity of the C-47 aircraft
necessitated that the much larger C-54s be added
to the airlift as quickly as possible. A single
C-54 was capable of carrying as much cargo as
four of its older cousins.
10
Fresh milk being loaded on a C-47.
Shipments of whole milk soon were dropped in
favor of more weight efficient condensed milk.
11
  • One of the first planes to bring in supplies.
    Food had to be rationed as well. Two-thirds of a
    pound per day for employed persons and one-half
    pound for the unemployed.

12
A C-54 flies over a graveyard and perilously
close to some apartments buildings while making
its landing approach.
13
Remains of a Navy C-54 after a crash landing on
the night of November 15, 1948.
14
Miniature parachutes carrying treats for the kids
can be seen dropping from a C-54 as it comes in
for a landing.
15
German children playing out their own Berlin
Airlift
16
Waiting for supplies. Notice the kids sitting on
rubble from WWII
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