Ari Gilder, 2-406!

 

Homework #8

 

1. Define/identify:

 

2. Why did a crisis arise in Berlin in 1948?

Since the three nations occupying West Berlin at the time had began to discuss plans for uniting their territories, the Soviet Union had decided to cut of all traffic into West Berlin, threatening the inhabitants with starvation.

 

3. How did the Western powers solve the problem?

The United States and Great Britain quickly responded by organizing a daily airlift of supplies into West Berlin. They had supplied food and coal to the 2 million residents of West Berlion. Finally in May 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the blockade.

 

4. What was the final resolution in regard to Germany post-WWII?

The three Western nations occupying Germany had assisted the Germans in writing their own consititution and setting up their own democratic government, the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany. In October 1949, a Communist government was set up in East Germany, known as the German Democratic Republic.