Discuss The Consequences Of The Berlin Blockade

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Soviet Union had control over Eastern Europe by 1948 was caused because of the fear of invasion. With history playing an impact on the Soviet Union after their invasion by the Germany in 25 years so Stalin wanted to create a buffer zone. Soviet Union by the end of the War had suffered a large number of population loss about Twenty million Russians died. Stalin aim was to take over Eastern Europe, people out fear of spread of communism fled Eastern Europe to the West. However, Churchill in his percentage agreement-agreed that Eastern Europe could be a soviet ‘sphere of influence” In the countries Soviet Union dominated communism was introduced. Non-Communists were gradually beaten, murdered, executed and terrified out of power. By 1949, all the governments of Eastern Europe, except Yugoslavia, were hard line Stalinist regimes. In 1946, Churchill declared that an Iron Curtain had come down across Europe, and that Soviet power was growing and had to be stopped. Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has …show more content…

West Berlin was a capitalist island in East Germany. People from East Berlin could travel freely and could see the benefits, which Marshall Aid was providing, to West Berlin. Stalin thought this would turn East Berliners into anti - communists. On 23 June 1948, they introduced a new currency, which they said would help trade. The next day, Stalin cut off all rail and road links to West Berlin - the Berlin Blockade. The west saw this as an attempt to starve Berlin into surrender, so they decided to supply West Berlin by air. The airlift had many results: the relationship between East and West were in tension, US lost $100 million, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was

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