HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Plaintext, Salami Tactics
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4 zones: british, american, french, and soviet zone. Berlin: was to be itself jointly occupied by all of those same powers. Problematic; to get to berlin, had to go entirely through soviet occupation zone. May 23, 1949: the western powers oversaw the creation of a new state in germany, which was to be called, the federal republic of germany, or more popularly known as, Soviets oversaw the creation of a separate state, within the soviet occupation zone, called the german democratic republic, or gdr for short, or more popularly known as, eastern germany. When western said they"d create their own currency, that would eventually become currency of western germany, stalin responded by creating a wall within berlin an economic blockaged. Us and britain felt they had to respond, responded by launching a massive airlift of food, supplies, even coal! To keep people work and let them cook, to west berlin.
