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Berlin Airlift/Wall Project Outline


 * 1) Berlin Wall
 * 2) The Building of the wall-  August 13, 1961
 * 3) Many like the wall in the beginning
 * 4) The wall separated East and West Berlin, communist and democratic
 * 5) The fall of the wall-  October 3rd, 1990
 * 6) All Germans enjoyed the fall of the wall, it brought families back together
 * 7) Allowed food to be brought through to eastern Germany
 * 8) Berlin Airlift
 * 9) Delivery of food into Berlin
 * 10) U.S. planes carried food
 * 11) U.S.S.R. started to look bad
 * 12) Stalin refused to shoot down the planes
 * 13) Blockade of land routes
 * 14) Airlift's occurred during the 1940's

Works Cited

"Berlin Wall." //Berlin Life | Travel Guide | Berlin Apartments Hotels Restaurants Bars Pubs and Shops Berlin | Germany//. Web. 24 May 2010. .

"The Berlin Airlift and NATO []." //Ushistory.org//. Web. 24 May 2010. .

Agenda

Cody Research Berlin Airlift/Blockade Write 2 questions about Airlift with answers

Johnny Research Berlin Wall Find video of Wall being torn down=[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s] Video of Berlin Airlift []

Write 3 questions about Wall with answers 1. Why was the Berlin Wall built? To separate Democratic and Communistic Germany 2. Which side failed to contain its citizens? The communist East Germany 3. What percentage of communist Germany's population rebelled? Over 10% 4.How much di the berlin airlift cost the U.S? 350 million 5.how many air fields total was there? 3 airfields

Nicely done boys- you two work well together. Keep up the good work tonight/tomorrow. -Ms. L

Facts

Berlin Wall

Berlin airlift
 * The wall was built within 24 hours
 * The land in between the two walls was named Dead mans land
 * During the 39 years the wall was up only 5000 made it across
 * There have been a few elaborate escapes, such as one family used a hot air balloon to float over the walls. another man drove under the barriers in his convertible
 * The West Side was Democratic, and the East was Communist
 * Many were leaving the Democratic side because of the communist's promises.
 * over 1500 people were leaving Democratic Germany every day
 * Even though Communism was failing the officials stuck to their decision
 * Only a year after the wall fell Germany was reunited
 * also known as the Berlin blockade
 * it was brought daily and contained much needed food and supplies to the city of west Berlin
 * only 2 air fields in west Berlin
 * 225 men were put to work on the landings to keep it operational because of the planes landing with heavy steel
 * 1948 the third air field was built
 * about 277,000 flights were made in the three terminals
 * over 2 million tons of goods were flown in
 * The pilots and aircrew also came from Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand
 * 68,000 people were flown OUT of Berlin
 * The airlift cost the United States $350 million
 * At the height of the operation, on April 16 1949, an allied aircraft landed in Berlin every minute
 * The major Berlin airfields involved were Tempelhof in the American sector, Gatow on the Havel river in the British sector and Tegel which was built by army engineers and Berlin volunteers in 49 days inside the French sector
 * Each aircraft was unloaded by German crews in 20-30 minutes
 * planes flew so much that at one point of time there could be several planes waiting to land, august 13 (black friday) there was several accidents which led to a new plan that if there was a waiting line for planes they had to go back to their home base or there would be a new crew and pilot hired.
 * probably the most popular memory of the berlin air lift would be "operation little vittles"they dropped candy with parachutes for little kids.

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