Berlin Blockade

Konrad Adenaur

leader of West Germany after it got rebuilt; first elected leader

Wernher von Braun

German rocket scientist that was taken to the US after the end of WW2; Built the V2 rocket and became the directior of NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center

Chiang kai Shek

leader of the Koumintang

Alger Hiss

guy who got convicted of perjury because of the “pumpkin papers” that were no proof what so ever

George Kennan

formulated the foreign policy of containment

Curtis LeMay

came up with the plan to supply West Berlin under the blockade

Mao Zedong

leader of Communist China

George C. Marshall

Attempted to broker a deal between Mao and Chiang

Joseph McCarthy

Wisconsin Senator who was the leader of the Red Scare

Henry Morgenthau

US Sec. of Treasury who wanted to eliminate Germany’s ability to wage war through the elimination of their war industry

Joseph Welch

lawyer for the american military when they were under trial for communists within it

Berlin Blockade

Soviet plan to try and gain control of Allie controlled West Berlin through a blockade

Containment

Foreign policy to not allow communism to leave where it is; to contain it within its borders

Koumintang

Nationalist Party of China

McCarran International Security Act

required all groups the government considered communist to register with the government

Morgenthau Plan

plan to turn Germany into a pastoral to eliminate their war industries and dismantling factories

Northern Expedition

expedition between Mao and Chiang to take down the warlords that were reigning over northern China

Operation Paperclip

Operation to bring all of the German scientists and doctors to the US to help them

Operation Vittles

The plan to airlift food and resources into West Berlin using C-54s

Osenberg List

list of all the German scientists and engineers after the fall of the Nazi Party that was found in the toilet

Pumpkin Papers

Papers that Chambers put in his pumpkin patch that apparently he handed off to Hiss; these led to the conviction of Hiss

Red Scare

US mass hysteria over communists in their government and entertainment industry

What are the three Basic Principles?

1. You never take anything

2. return anything you borrow

3. Treat the people as family

Describe the Berlin Blockade. What were the causes that led to it? What were the effects that it had on Germany and the US?

The Berlin Blockade was the more than 15 month long soviet blockade blocking the citizens of east germany from the west. Since Berlin was split into two halves, this blockade was created to try and get the allies to leave East Berlin. The Blockade started because the people on the west side of Germany and the west side of Berlin were looking over at the prosperous west germany and were migrating there. So, the soviets were losing workers and population. To stop this they made the blockade. But this blockade consequently trapped the free West Berlin in a sea of communism. After this blockade was enacted the US knew that they had to supply West Berlin somehow. Thankfully, the soviets built corridors for the US to fly planes to supply them. Stalin did this because he was giving them a chance that he thought was impossible to actually achieve and was hoping for them to give up and abandon Berlin. But the US persisted and chose Curtis LeMay to organize the airlift. They used C-54s to airlift many many tons of food every day. There were planes landing and taking off every 3 minutes at the airports. This airlift would save Berlin throughout the blockade until it was ceased. This blockade hurt East Germany even more than before it had the blockade.

Explain what happened to Germany after the war. What was the reason behind the decision? What was supposed to be the result? What actually happened? refer to map .

After the war Germany was split into 4 parts. The East part of Germany was given to stalin and the soviets. The upper West was to Britain and the bottom West was divided between france on the left and the US on the East. France was on the border of France so that the US could be closer to the soviets just in case they decided to attack the West. Originally their plane was the morgenthau plan, which wanted to dismantle all of the war industries in order to make Germany a pastoral. The West decided rather than that to go under the Marshall plan, which would help the west get back on their feet and become a democratic society. The soviets tried to do the same but under the communist Brother plan. The East fell behind the west drastically. The West ended up recovering and became a democratic nation who elected its first chancellor, Konrad Adenaur and the allies were able to leave. The East was still under soviet control until mid 1990.