The Berlin Blockade
- Began with currency reforms in West Germany
- Russians block the transportation routes into Berlin - Allies had to decide to give up Berlin or make other plans - War was an option Berlin Airlift - Instead the US decided on a massive airlift to supply the western half of the city - One aircraft lands every two minutes for 15 months - It became a public relations victory and a show of US industrial might - Example of the Truman Doctrine - One cause for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.”
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Russia being to control West Germany. Truman doctrine starts Berlin Airlift.
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