The Berlin Airlift: The Failure Of The Marshall Plan

Not only was the Berlin Airlift an effort to halt Soviet control, but it was also a means to control the spread of communism over Europe. Berlin was clearly the epicenter for the struggle between the influences of democracy in Europe against the rise of communism at the dawn of the Cold War (Office). The Berlin Airlift implemented the ideals of the US and its allies against communism. One such ideal was the Marshall Plan, which offered Allied aid to countries destroyed by WWII. The Marshall plan was not only an effort to resort economic strength in Western Europe, but it supplied the means for participating countries that have been damaged by the war to become economic allies with the US (Office). “Governments, political parties, or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise will encounter the opposition of the United States” (Marshall). The Soviet Union sought to starve West Berlin and was thus countered with the Allied Airlift because of the Marshall Plan. Allowing the western damaged states in Europe to embrace the support of the US would ensure comfort with democracy and lure them away from communism (Office).
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The Soviets were becoming increasing distant from Allied cooperation and blatantly forced their oppression onto the people of West Berlin in an inhumane effort to starve out the influence of the Western Powers. Along with this, the Allies feared the harmful effects that communism would instill into the heart of Europe. If the Soviets progressed any further past Berlin, their communist regime might starve out the whole nation. The Berlin Airlift helped save the capital, the country, and the entire western half of Europe from the horrible tyranny of the Soviet