WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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American effort to stop the Stalin’s blockade of roads and railways leading through East Germany to West Berlin
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Pipeline of Nazi sympathizers who were able to help many German war criminals escape to South America
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Transport by military aircraft of East Berliners who had escaped over the Berlin Wall and asked to be relocated to West Germany
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Allied bombing of Berlin and other German cities that brought about an end to the war in Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin airlift was a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city. The operation lasted from June 1948 until September 1949.
Detailed explanation-2: -Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, imposed the Berlin Blockade from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany. The Western Allies responded with a massive airlift to come to West Berlin’s aid.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blockaded all road, rail and water routes into Berlin’s Allied-controlled areas, stifling the vital flow of food, coal and other supplies. Soviet troop numbers dwarfed those of the Allies, which had drawn down after the war, so there was little the Allies could do about it militarily.