Berlin Blockade
On June 26, 1948 the largest airlift began as the American and British forces began theBerlin Airlift. To understand how the airlift came to be, we have to look all the way backto the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference began in February 1945 in which the threesuperpowers, America, Russia and Britain, met to discuss the future of post war Europe.America and Russia were emerging as the two superpowers, and their deterioratingrelationship would soon lead to many problems that would develop in post war Europe.Yalta saw the beginning of this deteriorating relationship. First, Stalin put a communistgovernment in place in Poland. Poland had been the route that enemies had used toinvade Russia on three separate occasions and Stalin felt he needed a friendly governmentin power. Stalin had agreed to hold elections in liberated countries following the warwhich he broke when he established a communist government in Poland. Although theU.S. and Britain had done the same thing when they put their own government in Italyfollowing their defeat, Stalin's move in Poland still upset the other two superpowers. U.S.still needed Russia's help to fight the war in Japan so President Roosevelt had to be
) Soon efforts werestepped up as the U. By the spring of 1949 it hadbecome obvious that the harassment tactics of the Soviets did not deter the American andBritish efforts of bringing supplies into Berlin. Truman, lacking the ground forces to punch througha blockade and worried about starting World War III opted to go with the airlift to getinto Berlin. At his disposal he had 102 C-47's, eachwith a cargo capacity of three tons and two of the larger C-54's that could haul ten tons atrip. June 1 1948 the Military Air Transport Service wasformed and would become responsible for the airlift. Germans living in these zones began to moveinto the U. Soon following the war in the Pacific, the relationship between the superpowerswould soon begin to deteriorate further leading up to the Berlin Blockade. For the next 322 day, beginning June 26 1948, U. Throughout theblockade all eyes were on the superpowers and their leaders but when all was said anddone it was Stalin and the Soviets that blinked first.
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