6.2 Friends and Enemies in Berlin part 2

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6.2 Friends and enemies in Berlin

Part 2

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to explain what the Blockade of Berlin is and how it resulted in the Berlin Airlift.
• You will be able to explain the American foreign policy after 1945.  
• You will be able to explain what the consequences were of the growing distrust between the West and the East.

What do you remember from the last lesson?

The agreements made during the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences are pretty clear...Where does it go wrong?

Beginning of the Cold War (from 1945)

• They no longer have a common enemy: Hitler is defeated

• Other players: Churchill and Roosevelt are gone (Potsdam, July 1945)

• Stalin gains more  communist influence in parts of Eastern Europe

• The US Has An Atomic Bomb (SU fears)

Potsdam's Big Three were:
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

1. True
2. False

Consequences

• No more talking

• Less and less trust between countries
  

• No solution for Germany and Berlin

• Creation of two Power Blocks in Europe

• Don't forget: The border of these two blocks runs right through Germany (and Europe)

American foreign policy after 1945

• Protecting freedom and democracy    (Trumandoctrine)

• Preventing more countries from becoming communist (Containment Policy)

• 
  Actively helping to rebuild Europe (Marshall Plan)

• Remember this: The Americans wanted to prevent Europe from becoming communist by starting the Marshall Plan

The Berlin Blockade

May 1948 - June 1949

What's happening?

• Arguments about Berlin are running high

• Stalin wants to add West Berlin to the Soviet zone

• Western occupation zones are increasingly becoming one area

• Direct reason: introduction of the German Mark in western occupation zones

What's happening?

• Stalin blocks all supply routes to West Berlin to force the city to surrender: Berlin Blockade

• The West will supply West Berlin by air: the Berlin Airlift
  

• A plane lands in West Berlin every 3 minutes for a year

• 
  

Establishment of West Germany (BRD)

And 

East Germany (DDR)

May (BRD) and October (DDR) 1949