The Berlin Blockade (1948-49)
1) Read pages 38 - 42 and find out the content for each of the following. Consider their significance of as steps of the crisis.
a) Contents of the de-Nazification policies and the mission of the Allied Control Council (ACC)?
b) Principles for the establishment of the four occupation zones (1945)?
c) Germany and the security interesses of the USSR?
d) Living conditions in the Soviet sector?
e) The confistication of German industry by the Allied?
f) German workers as a form of reparations?
g) The establishment of 'Bizonia'?
h) Arguments for proposals given by some Soviet officials to keep Germany permanently divided by sovietizing the eastern sector?
i) Why Stalin rejected these proposals?
j) A new four-power currency proposed in Febr 1948 and the Soviet reaction on it?
k) The plans of the West announced at the final meeting of the ACC in London (March 1948)?
l) Soviet response for the western announcement?
m) The currency conflict?
n) What were the other reasons for the blockade?
o) Arguments for the blame: 'The western powers had violated both Yalta and Potsdam agreements'?
p) 'No official treaty between the four powers about transportation through Soviet sector existed', so from the Soviet point of view...?
q) Why were the aides concern about the blockade but Stalin not?
r) The Soviet Union lifted the blockade on 12 May 1949. Why?
2) What were the main reasons for the crisis?
3) What is the message of the cartoon?
4) Read page 43 and create a spider diagram/ mind map about the consequences of the Berlin blockade. Send the completed diagram to the dropbox below (take a photo or use a mind map-programme).
https://peda.net/id/8aa8b82a8b3
(A cartoon drawn by E.H. Shepard and published on Punch Magazine in 1948.)
a) Contents of the de-Nazification policies and the mission of the Allied Control Council (ACC)?
b) Principles for the establishment of the four occupation zones (1945)?
c) Germany and the security interesses of the USSR?
d) Living conditions in the Soviet sector?
e) The confistication of German industry by the Allied?
f) German workers as a form of reparations?
g) The establishment of 'Bizonia'?
h) Arguments for proposals given by some Soviet officials to keep Germany permanently divided by sovietizing the eastern sector?
i) Why Stalin rejected these proposals?
j) A new four-power currency proposed in Febr 1948 and the Soviet reaction on it?
k) The plans of the West announced at the final meeting of the ACC in London (March 1948)?
l) Soviet response for the western announcement?
m) The currency conflict?
n) What were the other reasons for the blockade?
o) Arguments for the blame: 'The western powers had violated both Yalta and Potsdam agreements'?
p) 'No official treaty between the four powers about transportation through Soviet sector existed', so from the Soviet point of view...?
q) Why were the aides concern about the blockade but Stalin not?
r) The Soviet Union lifted the blockade on 12 May 1949. Why?
2) What were the main reasons for the crisis?
3) What is the message of the cartoon?
4) Read page 43 and create a spider diagram/ mind map about the consequences of the Berlin blockade. Send the completed diagram to the dropbox below (take a photo or use a mind map-programme).
https://peda.net/id/8aa8b82a8b3
(A cartoon drawn by E.H. Shepard and published on Punch Magazine in 1948.)