Berlin Blockade

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The Beginning of the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade

The Cold War:

The cold war was a political war between two ideological systems. The U.S.S.R and the USA regarded each others’ ideological systems as political takeover threats to each other. For this reason, they became fierce enemies. The U.S.S.R was having its rapid expansion across most of Asia with their communist system, and it was on the brink of taking over most of Europe until Churchill created the “Iron Curtain”. It was a phrase used by Churchill to show the division of Communism on the West, and Capitalism on the West. Both sides were in a race of military, political, economical and many more to put the other side down.

Characteristics of the Cold War:

The political systems were at the heart of the characteristics, because they begun and raised more needs for both sides. The ideologies clashed from the beginning of the post-World War two conferences. Even though the Yalta Conference was considered as a helpful one – because the “Big Three” as they were called, all got together and formed agreements, it did raise some eyebrows as the major powers tried to foresee each others’ futures. Some months later, at the Potsdam conference, the leaders didn’t come together to form agreements which they would act upon in the future. The outcomes of the Yalta conference completely differed to those in the Potsdam conference, because lack of trust began to develop and caused arguments between all the leaders. For this reason, both sides saw that they need more support, and a good way to gain support was to give support to the ones that really needed it. They propped up their regimes also through propaganda, mainly through the growing media because they could easily hide the bias. Both sides also recognized the need to develop and grow their arms and their military force. They saw this method as a way to scare off their enemy and a defense against any possible war.

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The Berlin Blockade:

The cause of the Berlin blockade was based on the reason that two leaders had differing opinions on how to deal with re-stabilizing Germany, which was often the case during the cold war. The Soviet Union wanted to destroy Germany as they saw it as a future threat. This was demonstrated through the fact that they were taking German war machines to U.S.S.R in 1947. On the other side, France, USA and Britain were planning to create a German state combining their zones and were creating a plan against U.S.S.R. Russian spies found out about this ...

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