The Berlin Blockade 29.2

Question 1

When was the Berlin blockade

Answer 1

1948 June -1949 april

Question 2

Germany and Berlin fate after WW2?

Answer 2

Germany and Berlin divided into four zones.
Controlled by Americans, British, Soviets and French.

-Division temporary

Question 3

What was life like in Germany

Answer 3

Devastated after war
-Economic and social hardship.

Question 4

What did the countries want for Germany?

Answer 4

-USSR demanded compensation from Germany.
They wanted a permanently weakened Germany that would not be a threat again

-Others wanted a strong prosperous and democratic Germany that would be an obstacle to communism.

Question 5

What was introduced to help revive the economy? USSR reaction

Answer 5

Deutschmark- refused to allow currency to be used in their zone.

Question 6

When did Berlin blockade begin, what happened.

Answer 6

24 June 1948- Soviets cut off all road, rail and canal links to West Berlin.
-Stalin hoped Allies would leave the city

Question 7

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 7

Code name Operation Vittles
-Cargo planes would fly into 3 airports in West Berlin bringing food, clothing, medical supplies and fuel for over 2.5 million people.

Question 8

How long did airlifts continue?

Answer 8

Until April 1949
- Stalin realised he would not be able to drive the Allies out.
-Allies were able to deliver more supplies by air than by road and rail before the blockade.

Question 9

Results of Berlin Blockade and aircraft

Answer 9

-Soviets prepared to increase pressure on west ( not provoke military confrontation)

-Division of Germany permanent

-NATO

-Accelerated nuclear weapons programs and Warsaw pact

• arms race

Question 10

How was Germany permanently divided?

Answer 10

Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany )- democrat icon and capitalist

German Democratic Republic ( East Germany)- communist country within soviet sphere of influence.

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

North Atlantic Treaty organisation
-1949
-military alliance its members agreed to support each other in attack by other states.

Question 12

Nuclear programs and Warsaw pact

Answer 12

-Soviets accelerated nuclear programs and detonated atomic bong in 1949.

-Warsaw pact- military alliance in Eastern Europe
-1955

Question 13

Arms Race

Answer 13

-started by detonation of soviet atomic bomb.
-both sides in Cold War spent billions every year to build bigger and more powerful nuclear weapons that could wipe out the other side.