POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the construction of the Berlin Wall
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the call for a meeting of the US and USSR at the Berlin Summit
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the Berlin Airlift to get supplies into Berlin
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the signing of the Berlin Treaty in 1949
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin .
Detailed explanation-2: -The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany.
Detailed explanation-3: -In June 1948 the Soviet Union, whose territory fully surrounded the capital, cut off all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin in an attempt to force the Allies to abandon the city.
Detailed explanation-4: -The only way to supply the city was by the three air corridors into Berlin from Hamburg, Hanover and Frankfurt. Britain, the United States and other Western Allies flew aircrafts of supplies into Berlin’s Tempelhof, Gatow and Tegal airports.
Detailed explanation-5: -In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin.