Friday, April 23, 2010

Cold War Tensions (Berlin Airlift)


Starving out the population and cutting off their business was their way of gaining control. The Truman administration reacted with a day-by-day airlift which brought much needed food and supplies into the city of West Berlin. This Airbridge to Berlin lasted until the end of September of 1949. on May 12, 1949, the Soviet government yielded and lifted the blockade.

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