Consequences of the Berlin airlift/blockade

Question 1

1st consequence

Answer 1

The first effect of the Berlin Crisis was that it created a divided Germany, increasing tensions between the East and West

• 3 days after the blockade the Western zones came together as a state known as the Federal Republic of Germany
• the new leader of the government, Adenauer, hated communism and believed very strongly in linking West Germany to the USA and Western Europe
• Stalin responded by creating the German Democratic Republic which only the communist bloc countries recognised as a nation

Question 2

2nd consequence

Answer 2

The second effect was that the USA, Britain, France, and other Western countries joined together to form NATO

• NATO was a specific military alliance between Western countries with the specific aim of defending the West against communism
• the members of NATO agree that if any member was attacked, all members of NATO would come to its assistance
• NATO resulted in the Americans keeping bases in Europe through the Cold War
• the Soviet Union responded to NATO by setting up its military alliance in 1955, established under a treaty called the Warsaw Pact