COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The United States and France
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Great Britain and the United States
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Germany and Russia
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The United States and the Soviet Union
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the entire airlift, the U.S. and U.K. delivered more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel and supplies to West Berlin via more than 278, 000 airdrops.
Detailed explanation-3: -On 26 June 1948, Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime.
Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. Berlin, the German capital city, was located deep in the Soviet zone, but it was also divided into four sections.
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.