USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin Airlift is still seen as the biggest Cold War propaganda victory for the USA. It helped to underpin the belief in American invincibility until this was shattered 20 odd years later during the Vietnam War.

Detailed explanation-2: -By spring 1949, the Berlin Airlift proved successful. The Western Allies showed that they could sustain the operation indefinitely. At the same time, the Allied counter-blockade on eastern Germany was causing severe shortages, which, Moscow feared, might lead to political upheaval.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage, while simultaneously demonstrating to the world the “Yankee ingenuity” for which their nation was famous.

Detailed explanation-4: -The agreements split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation zones”: They gave the eastern part of the country to the Soviet Union and the Western part to the U.S. and Great Britain. In turn, those nations agreed to cede a small part of their territories to France.

Detailed explanation-5: -They said it was impossible and we did it anyway. The Berlin Airlift and WWII before it taught a generation of young Americans a process we now call logistics–how to bring together massive quantities of materials, manufacturing and people and use them to solve seemingly impossible problems.