Outcome of Berlin Airlift / Wall by Robert Rush https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf en-us 2024-10-18 14:09:02 UTC 2024-10-21 13:53:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176277433 The Berlin Airlift helped deliver more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, and supplies to allied controlled Berlin.

]]> 2024-10-18 14:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176277433 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176283139 Berlin Airlift resulted in refugees from the east to migrate west. This caused the embarrassed USSR to build a wall to restrict movement between the east and west.

]]> 2024-10-18 14:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176283139 Background 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176293082 2024-10-18 14:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176293082 Sides of Berlin 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176296828 The western side of the Berlin wall was controlled by the US and the UK, so it had democratic ideas. The eastern side was controlled by the Communist USSR.

]]> 2024-10-18 14:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176296828 Results of the airlift / wall 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176306991 The wall split families that were on either side, and no one was allowed across.

Many people had jobs on the other side, which restricted them from working.

Around 171 people were killed trying to cross the border.


]]> 2024-10-18 14:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3176306991 When the wall was demolished 392093_2 https://padlet.com/392093_2/h6k95rk4qavwh8lf/wish/3179550934 The wall was taken down on November 9th, 1989. More than 2 million people from east Berlin visited west Berlin. Reunification was official and Germany was whole again.

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