1. 4/7/15
CO: Explain the United States’ response to the Berlin blockade.

2. Ch. 26: Cold War Conflicts
The Berlin Airlift

3. Occupied Germany

4. Occupied Berlin
Berlin was similarly divided into four distinct areas but was situated some 100 miles within Soviet controlled eastern Germany, connected only by one highway and rail line to the west.

5. Berlin Blockade
Growing tensions between the Allies and the Soviets escalated in 1948, with frequent road closures and inspections of Allied transports into Berlin. 
June 24, 1948: Soviets cut power to Berlin and set up a blockade preventing any land access into the city.

6. Stalin’s motivation
Did Stalin want to force out the Western countries?
“It is all lies…It is not a blockade, but a defensive measure.”

7. Berlin Airlift: Operation Vittles
For nearly a year two million civilians and twenty thousand allied soldiers in the city's western sector were fed and fueled entirely from the air.
327 days
277,000 flights
13 tons per day
4 hours of electricity per day
2.3 million tons of supplies

8. Uncle Wiggly Wings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOoLbJ_ZAQ
Who was the Candy Bomber?  
How do you think his actions affected the Berlin Airlift?

9. Containment!
How does the airlift demonstrate the American policy of containment?
The aim of the U.S. and it's allies was to stop Russia from spreading Communism into Germany. 

10. Closure paragraph
Do you think the United States should have tried to end the blockade by force?