Berlin+Airlift

= Berlin Airlift = Caroline Martin

//**1948 - 1949**//
[ [Resource: []]] and [] = What started the Berlin Airlift and what was it? = When Stalin moved into Berlin, Germany, he decided to build a wall between East and West Germany. This crisis was making the shape of Germany even worse than it was before. With people dying from starvation and dehydration and lack of warmth etc. That was, until George C. Marshall created the Marshall Plan. France, The UK and The US joined together to fly to Berlin, Germany and drop off all sorts of needed materials, like food, water and coal. In the pictures above, you can see how people were at first, curious and then very happy to have food once again.

= = = Who was part of the Berlin Airlift = George C. Marshall created the Marshall Plan which the Berlin Airlift was part of. The big picture of the Marshall plan was to stop communists (and Stalin) from moving onward into different places. Then, he decided to honor Captain Jack Bennett, a pilot, be the first pilot to fly to Germany in the Berlin Airlift. Also, around this time, Harry S. Truman was running for president in the Untied States.

Joseph (loseph) Stalin was the full name of the man who made this entire crisis happen. At first, people thought that he was an amazing man trying to stop Hitler and he was quite a successful war leader. But after the war, people started to see how bad of a man he actually was. Some say that he was worse than Hitler. Hitler just wanted to kill the Jews, while Stalin besically killed everyone he didn't like (I.E. people in his way.)

[] = Mishaps during the Time. =

At first, Stalin prohibited the people from flying into West Germany and he said that they were only allowed to ground transportation. At first, Stalin was permitting them into West Germany, but soon, the Communists started to harass the military troops who were transporting food and coal into West Germany. Soon enough, it started to get so bad that then, Stalin declared no more trade between East and West Germany. Then, the non communists started to starve to death and they were back to the beginning. Along with west Germany dying, in all, 600 pilots had died in the just under two years that they were there for.

= Good things during this time = Later on, people were then able to use boats/ships and that made them more successful with transporting food than ever. On Easter Day, 1949 more than 1,298 flights went out with more than 12,490 tons of food. A new record! People rejoiced and were happy and celebrated. Soon enough, non communists got extremely strong, which lead to the fleeing of the Komandatura from the country. And finally, on May 12, 1949, Communists stopped everything and gave up. Making the Berlin Airlift a win.

=Random facts on the Berlin Airlift=

That Easter 1949, 75 people died. It could be a good number of deaths or it could be a bad number, there were 1,298 flights out that day. So, if it was people killed my the Communists, then it is quite a good number. It shows how weak people were in Germany and how strong the US, UK and France was. There was an average of 5,000 tons of food shipped out daily as well. But people also called it the most extraordinary peacetime military operation in history and the first serious crisis in the cold war.

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