Berlin+Airlift

= Berlin Airlift =

//**1948 - 1949**//
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= What started the Berlin Airlift? = = = = What as the Berlin Airlift? =
 * Stalin had moved into Berlin, Germany and started to build a wall between East and West Germany
 * With the shape that Germany was already in, people were starving and dying and nobody did anything.
 * Until France, the United States, and The UK did something about it.
 * The US, UK and France were exporting food, water, and coal to Germany for people to live better with Germany the way it was.
 * More than 227,264 flights were lifted with more than 2,343,315 tons of food and coal.

= Who was part of the Berlin Airlift =
 * Captain Jack Bennett - First pilot to fly to Germany in this project.
 * Joseph (loseph) Stalin - Bad man (Some say he was worse than Hitler) who made the wall between East and West Germany
 * George C. Marshall - Created the Marshall plan which the Berlin Airlift was part of.

= Mishaps during the Time. =
 * The Soviet union (Stalin) prohibited the UK from going into West Germany (the non-soviet side)
 * Non soviets then starved because of the lack of food.
 * Soviets began to harass ground transporters between East and West Germany in 1948.
 * More than 600 pilots' lives were lost during that year.

= Good things during this time =
 * Easter day in April, 1949, more than 1,298 flights with more than 12,490 tons of food were flown out
 * The head of the Soviets leader fled the Komandatura and everyone stopped traffic for him to do so.
 * May, 12, 1949, Soviets stopped everything and conceded defeat.
 * May, 12, 1949, Soviets stopped everything and conceded defeat.