The Pros And Cons Of The Berlin Blockade

Berlin Blockade The Berlin Blockade was the first catastrophe of the Cold War. By 1945, Germany had lost the war and was divided into 4 sectors: the British, Soviet Zone, French Zone, and the American Zone. In the process of trying to gain economic recovery in Germany, the US, Great Britain, and France tried to change the currency. The new currency, which the Soviets had no control over, Eastern Berlin almost immediately made a new currency before the Western side went into the public. This is when they set a blockade up to where no people were allowed in or out of Berlin. Or even on the trails/land that was used to help aid the people of Berlin. Truman’s decision was to fly in the needs of Berlin citizens by plane. My solution would be
to fly the planes into Berlin, drop off food and needs of the citizens, as like a suck up. Then eventually convince them to get on the plane and take multiple trips back and forth to get all of the Berlin citizens out of Berlin and to American territory. My plan probably would not have worked, due to the amount of people in Berlin and a threat from the Soviets would come about how they would plan an attack on America’s land in Germany. Then the most of America’s troops would end up dying due to the overpowerment of the Soviet army. Truman made the best decision as possible.
Shooting the wall and people down was not going to be in America’s best interest because of the amount of troops the Soviet Union had. Truman was also all about his citizens and about his troops, knowing how many troops the Soviet Union had compared to how much troops we had, he knew it would not end well. Both mine and Truman’s plans consisted of using some type of aircraft to either give aid to the citizens or to take them completely out of Berlin. I believe that Truman’s plan was the most efficient because it was straight forward about giving aid to the citizens and it came with no signs of war. The Soviets original plan of putting up the wall worked for just a short period of time. The airlift plan that President Truman made was obviously better. The change in currency and giving aid to the citizens of Berlin eventually led up to the blockade being taken down and the end of
WWII.

Truman’s decision to send aid to Greece and Turkey
On February 21, 1947, the British Embassy informed the U.S. government that the British could no longer provide financial aid to the Greece and Turkey governments. Greece being in the middle of a civil war and Turkey needing assistance with making their society better again President Truman that he could use his foreign policy to help by giving aid to both Greece and Turkey.
Not even a month later on March 12, 1947, in an addressing to Congress, President Harry S. Truman declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. His first request was for $4 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress had approved.
On that same day Truman gave a speech about the situation. He addressed that both Greece and Turkey were close with the Soviet Union. However, Truman was 100% against communism and would give aid to any country that was against it or was going to turn to it.
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes…” By asking for this $4 million, Truman explained that this was only 1/10th of the money that it took to fight, and win, in World War II. President Truman was all about his people, his troops, and the people of the world. He then explained that it was a basic need that the amount that was spent was going to good cause because it was to help insure his main goal, world peace and world freedom. American support was given to both Turkey and Greece... Turkey fought the Soviet Union's pressure over communism; and the Greek government exited communism by October 1949. Overall, by giving aid to Turkey and Greece, President Truman exceeded his main goal of turning countries from communist to capitalist just by offering money/other ways of giving
aid.