Results Of The Crisis

Question 1

What where the three major effects of the crisis ?

Answer 1

• confirmed the divisions of Germany and Berlin
• it greatly increased East-west rivalry
• it led to the creation of NATO

Question 2

How did western forces react at the end of the crisis ? ( think zones)

Answer 2

They announced that their former occupation zones would join together to form the FRG
Stalins responded by making his zone the GDR

Question 3

How did this effect the rivalry ?

Answer 3

• Truman sees this as a great victory as he had stood up to soviet aggression and survived
• Stalin was humiliated and undermined however soviet people where not led to believe that

Question 4

What did the Berlin crisis show ?

Answer 4

Western states even when joined together where not a march for the Soviet Union and needed the support of the US

Question 5

What did the realization about the need for US support lead to ?

Answer 5

April 1949 the northern Atlantic treaty organization was signed or NATO
It was formed to stop the spread of communism

Question 6

What did Stalin see NATO as ?

Answer 6

An aggressive alliance that aimed against the Soviet Union
Furthermore the decision to make western Germany a member of NATO and allow the area to demilitarize was seen as a direct threat by Stalin

Question 7

What where the five consequences of setting up NATO ?

Answer 7

1. USA now committed to the defense of Europe
2. Stalin didn’t believe it was a defensive alliance and believed it aimed against the Soviet Union
3. Intensified the arms race between the west and east
   - within 6 years the Soviet Union established the Warsaw pact in 1955
   - USA set up its owns missile bases in Western Europe and the UK