Berlin blockade Crisis

Question 1

Division of Berlin

Answer 1

Divided into 4 sectors among France, Britain, America and USSR

Question 2

Potsdam contradiction

Answer 2

In the Potsdam agreement there was a consesus of German reunification

Question 3

Russian view of split

Answer 3

Russia felt threatened due to American take over of trizonia due to European power lack of resources

Question 4

Russian unhappiness

Answer 4

Russian’s feared the thought of having American troops deep within Soviet territory

Question 5

Catalyst for blockade

Answer 5

June 1948, new currency established in West Berlin

Question 6

Blockade start

Answer 6

Bolockade began in June 1948, with all land transport to West Berlin cut off by Stalin

Question 7

New policies

Answer 7

Non military intervention a more clever stratgey of intervention

Question 8

Berlin Airlift

Answer 8

Begins in ‘48 and ends in ‘49

Question 9

Airlift by

Answer 9

British pilots and Luftwaffe pilots drop off resources via bomb planes 24/7

Question 10

Quantity from airlift

Answer 10

2.3 million tonnes of cargo delivered by June-may

Question 11

Russian capitulaiton

Answer 11

Capitulated by ‘49 allowing for transport

Question 12

Consequences

Answer 12

Development of NATO in 1949

Question 13

NSC-68

Answer 13

Berlin blockade was the catalyst for the signing of American security agreement ie; massive funding in April 7 1950

Question 14

USSR Atomic Bomb

Answer 14

1949 Ussr successfully detonates atomic bomb making the world bipolar