Events in Germany 1948-61
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London Conference 2 end
June 1948
New currencies were formed
June 1948
Berlin Blockade
23rd June 1948
Berlin airlift
26th june 1948 - May 1949
FRG formed
September 1949
GDR formed
October 1949
East German uprising
June 16th 1953
Brain drain - how many ppl left?
1949 - 1961 2.8 million people left EG, around 1/6 of the total population, with over ½ of these people under 25yrs
Khurshchev’s Berlin Ultimatum
November 1961
Berlin Wall constructed
August 1961
evidence that the wall worked
in 1961 207k ppl left, but in 1962 after wall this dropped to 21k
President Kennedy on the Berlin Wall
“a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war”
statistics of people dying/arrested bc of Berlin Wall
3,500 ppl arrested trying to escape + at least 170 died trying to cross
Hallstein Doctrine applied
1960s