1. The Berlin Crisis

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

4. What They Did:

6. 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.

8. 1930s Civil War

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

11. Winner is….

12. Mao!

13. Nationalists retreat to Taiwan

14. 1949
Worried about spread of communism, Western European nations and US form NATO