Berlin Blockade

the lives of many stratus belonging to the Victorian society. BERLIN AIRLIFT The Berlin Airlift was caused due to the Berlin Blockade, a major effect of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies. It was a response to the blockage of the railway, canals, and roads to Berlin sectors under Western control. It transpired between 24th June 1948-30th September 1949 to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The blockade made US and Britain to impose embargo on all exports…

Franklin Roosevelt, who was our president that led Americans through the Depression and WWII died. Which lead to Harry S. Truman the vice president taking over as president. He carried out Roosevelt 's plans and came up with new plans for ending and reconstructing war throughout the world. Truman is known in history for all of his contributions and hard work put into our war effort and helping international economy. The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy that stopped…

The missile scare was a 13 day confrontation on October 16 through 28, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with Soviet Union missile deployment in Cuba. The Crisis is recognized as the closet the Cold War was to becoming a nuclear war. As a response to the attempted Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 and the holding of American missiles in Italy and Turkey Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union leader, made an agreement…

As a result of it the Soviet Union put up a blockade on Berlin. Berlin is the capital of Germany and was also split up between the country. Berlin was deep into Soviet land. As a result of the blockade, the United States. and Great Britain started the Berlin airlift. This airlift dropped tons of supplies into Berlin by plains. It lasted for more than 10 months. They used over 200,000 flight carriers and dropped 2.3 million tons of supplies for Berlin. Since the Soviet were also trying to avoid…

announce that nuclear weapons would not be tolerated in Cuba, and stated the US would respond to any Cuban attack with all-out nuclear retaliation. In response to the increased Soviet ships coming with weapons, JFK ordered a blockade, which he called quarantine because a blockade is an act of war, around Cuba. For 13 days, the world held its breath as the threat of a nuclear war hung over the world, but the Soviets…

contrary, East Berlin was still struggling due to the Soviet Union taking their resources. Joseph Stalin went into action when he realized the huge contrast between West Berlin and East Berlin. Stalin wanted the western allies to leave West Berlin. On April 1,1948, the Soviet military government in Berlin landed a blockade of the allied areas of the city. For ten months over two million tons of supplies were airlifted to the blockaded city. The 2.5 million people living in West Berlin were…

The story of JFK and the Vietnam War cannot be told without first telling the story of the political development before the war even was a possibility. At the end of World War 2 The United States no longer had to wage war against the Germans and the Japanese. Instead, The United States began to keep a watchful eye on their World War 2 ally in the Siberian North: Russia. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the Russian and American armies met for the first time on April 25, 1945, at the Elbe River in…

The Master Aggressor in the Cold War The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II primarily between the United States of America and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was more about convincing other countries to turn Capitalist or Communist than fighting each other with weapons and items of mass destruction. However, the combat with weapons never really occurred in the United States of America or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.…

decisions made by the President and ExComm could possibly affect Berlin. It was stated that “Kennedy interpreted the installation of missiles in Cuba as a move preparatory to a showdown on Berlin.” The United States had promised to protect the million and a half West Berliners from Soviet take-over and they feared that any actions they took against the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis could cause disastrous results against Berlin. This is shown in the film through quotes such as “…you…

Although FDR died before the World War II ended, his influence shaped the postwar world. After years of isolation, when the US entered WW2, Roosevelt recognized that traditional world powers like Great Britain and France would no longer be strong enough to police the world. Realizing that it would be America’s responsibility to combat forces opposed to democracy, he began to make plans in a series of conferences with allied leaders, even as the war raged on. At the Atlantic Conference,…