Question | Answer |
What was the cause of tension between the superpowers during the cold war? | The division of Germany after world war II |
After world war II Germany was divided into four zones of occupation. Who got these zones? | The Soviet Union,America,Britain and France |
Berlin,the capital city of Germany was also divided,who got the east and who got the west of the city? | The Soviet Union got the east. America,Britain and France got the west |
Why did stalin want Germany to remain weak? | Stalin believed that a weak Germany would prose no future threat to the Soviet Union |
What was the Deutschmark? | The new common currency that America,Britain and France planned to introduce in 1948 |
Why did Stalin not like the idea of the Deutschmark? | He believed that the other superpowers were pressuring the Soviet union into accepting the reunification of Germany |
What happened on June 24 1948? | Stalin closed all land and water routes between west Germany and Berlin |
Who were the western allies? | America,Britain and France |
After west Berlin had been cut off from the rest of west Germany what did the western allies do? | They airlifted food supplies using three air corridors. Hamburg,Hanover and Frankfurt |
Stalin realized that his plans to drive the western allies out of west Berlin had failed. What did he do then? | He re-opened the boarders on May 12 1949 |
What were the results of the airlift? | Germany was split into the Feral Repulbic of Germany (FDR) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) until 1990. America,Canada and 10 western European countries set up a defensive organsiation called (NATO)The north Atlantic treaty organsication |
What was the Berlin wall? | The 25 mile wall that was built through the middle of Berlin to divided east and west on the 13th of August in 1961 |