The Berlin Crisis.

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The Berlin Crisis

About 2 million people live in West Berlin. What should the Allies do?

What They Did:

western powers organized and airlifted Lift lasted just under 11 months 2,326,406 tons of food, coal, passengers, and other items into the city total of 278,228 flights. At the height of the airlift, planes flew around the clock in four hour blocks taking off and landing every 90 seconds. At any given time there were thirty-two aircraft in the air.

1930s Civil War

Aid-US gives nationalists Over $200,000,000 Backs in UN Soviet Union gives communists: Training in USSR Examples, support Weapons

Winner is….

Mao!

Nationalists retreat to Taiwan

1949 Worried about spread of communism, Western European nations and US form NATO

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