Berlin Blockade

for defense. But when Kennedy found out that nuclear missiles were placed, he got concerned. The first thing Kennedy did was set a blockade on Cuba. A blockade is where a place can not get any access from other countries or places. The Soviet accepted the blockade and refused to move the missiles. Next, President Kennedy responded to Soviet Union's hope to gain West Berlin, by moving American missiles that were located in Turkey. This information about U.S missiles was a secret. The Soviet…

the last one. Berlin, Germany also was split into four occupation zones as well as Vienna, Austria. With the re-occupation of Europe, the Soviet took advantage and re-annexed countries west of Germany. Eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina. Soviets also recovered the Baltic States and parts of Prussia. ("The Soviet Union and Europe after 1945") The Soviets gained land and were able to spread power through these occupations they regained. Such as cities as Vienna and Berlin. As the…

actually was. The three examples are, the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.…

The Candy Bomber The Berlin Airlift is remembered as a Symbol of American resolve…(Tine 39) General Lucius D. Clay said, “There is no practicability in maintaining our position in Berlin and it must not be evaluated on that basis… We are convinced that our remaining in Berlin is essential to our prestige in Germany and in Europe. Whether for good or bad, it has become a symbol of American intent.” In Post-World War II Berlin, Germany’s capital, was divided into four sections. Those sections…

Gail Halvorsen was the tremendous ¨Berlin Candy Bomber¨ he was born on October 10, 1920 Salt Lake City, UT he was a colonel in the Royal Air Force, he later on returned to the Army Air Corps and was assigned flight duties. Gail grew up on a small farm in Utah and Idaho, he graduated Bear River High School. Gail Halvorsen was married to Alta Jolley in 1949-1999 then they got into a divorce, and later on he married Lorraine Pace. in 1939. Gail earned a private pilot licence under the non-collage…

times during the Cold War that the United States attempted to contain communism like the Truman Doctrine , which declared that America would support the free people, three examples are very clear.. They controlled the expansion of communism by the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As soon as the Soviets decided to expand, the Americans followed up with the decision to contain. These series of event, arguably, prevented the Soviet Nation’s reign on the…

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany and its capital, Berlin, were divided up between the four major allies: Britain, United States, France, and the Soviet Union. The Western section of Germany which was under the authority of Britain, France, and the United States united to form the Federal Republic of Germany. The territory of Germany under Soviet domination was titled The German Democratic Republic. Berlin, divided among each of the Allies in a similar way, was located deep inside…

problems. Throughout the world the fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated but in the Soviet Union, the fall began to destroy their government. The wall was a physical and mental barrier between East and West Berlin. After World War II, Germany was divided into two states. The four allies; France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, controlled the city of Berlin. Berlin was the capital of Germany before the end of the war. Berlin was the only place where Germans could freely…

A walk through West Berlin: Containment of Communism After WWII , The United States made great efforts to contain communism from spreading around the world. Containment was the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet communism should not be allowed to spread. A short passage, from a telegram that was secretly sent to U.S. State Department officials on February 22, 1946 from an American foreign service officer in Moscow makes it clear that Joseph Stalin and the Soviets believe communism is better…

“To what extent did fear of communism spark the Cold War?” To a large extent the fear of communism led to the spark of the cold war as it was perceived in the west that the soviets aimed to communise eastern Europe after world war 2. The cold war began in 1947 as tensions brewed between the USSR and the USA during and after the second world war. USSR were communist and the USA were capitalist because of these two ideological differences it divided Europe into east (USSR) and west (USA) with…