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Agenda. Berlin Notes Video Silent Debate Read & Highlight Quiz Next Class!. Objectives. Explain the importance of Berlin during the Cold War. 165. Berlin. 1st hot spot of Cold War. Divided Berlin. Improve your knowledge.

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  1. Agenda • Berlin • Notes • Video • Silent Debate • Read & Highlight • Quiz Next Class!

  2. Objectives • Explain the importance of Berlin during the Cold War

  3. 165. Berlin 1st hot spot of Cold War

  4. Divided Berlin Improve your knowledge • The Russians took very high casualties to capture Berlin in May 1945. They spent the early occupation trying to take over all zones of the city but were stopped by German democrats such as Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer. Reluctantly the Russians had to admit the Americans, French and British to their respective zones.

  5. What caused tension in Berlin? Aims: Stalin wanted to destroy Germany. Britain and the USA wanted to rebuild it.

  6. What caused tension in Berlin? BIZONIA: The Russians were taking German industry back to Russia. Britain and the USA joined their two zones together to get the German industry back on its feet. They called the two zones “Bizonia” Why might this worry Stalin?

  7. What caused tension in Berlin? New Currency: America and France announced that they wanted to create the new country of “West Germany”. They introduced the Deutsche Mark They did not tell Stalin they were going to do this!

  8. What caused tension in Berlin? American Aid: The Russians did not want Marshall Aid coming into Berlin Why did Stalin dislike Marshall Aid?

  9. What was the Berlin Blockade? • The Russians stopped all road, rail and canal traffic into Berlin. • Stalin said he was defending the east German economy against the new currency, which was ruining it.   • The western powers said he was trying to force them out of Berlin.

  10. What did the Allies do? In this British cartoon from 1948, Stalin watches as the storks fly coal and food into Berlin, but he dares not shoot them down.

  11. How long did the airlift last? 318 days!

  12. Airlift facts • In the winter Berliners lived on dried potatoes, powdered eggs and cans of meat.   They had 4 hours of electricity a day. • A plane landed every 3 mins. • On 16 April 1949, 1400 flights brought in 13,000 tons of supplies in one day – Berlin only needed 6,000 tons a day to survive. • The airmen were regarded as heroes.

  13. What were the consequences? • May 1949, Stalin reopened supply routes • USA joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) • Committed to keeping the peace • USSR announced that it had tested its first nuclear bomb

  14. Berlin Wall Created • Conditions poor under communism in East Berlin. • 1961 created Berlin Wall to stop East Germans from leaving to West

  15. Berlin Wall Video

  16. Silent Debate

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