With the confrontation and struggle between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union gradually changed from an ally to an opponent, and finally broke out, marked by the cold war signal and Truman Doctrine that the United States first sent out a clear containment and confrontation against the Soviet Union.
Truman Doctrine is a direct result of the problems of Greece and Turkey. These two countries were originally British spheres of influence, but Britain was unable to provide assistance to them after the war. I hope the United States will take over this burden. The United States immediately realized:
This is an excellent opportunity for the United States to achieve its strategic goals, and the United States should accept it without hesitation.
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The first climax of the cold war
The United States and Britain believed that the Soviet blockade was a deliberate attempt to drive the western countries out of Berlin, and their determination to stay in Berlin did not need to be discussed. So the United States and Britain immediately took countermeasures, not only implementing the anti-blockade against the Soviet Union and interrupting the transportation of coal and steel to the Soviet-occupied areas, but also implementing air transportation to West Berlin from June 29. 1948.
According to statistics, during the blockade period, US air transport troops flew 6.5438+0.95 million sorties, and the air cargo exceeded 6.5438+0.4 million tons, at a cost of 250 million US dollars, meeting the needs of more than 2 million residents in West Berlin.
A large number of planes whizzed past the eastern part of Germany at a frequency of one every three minutes, airlifting all kinds of necessities and materials to the occupied area in western Berlin on a large scale.
At this moment, people really felt that the United States and the Soviet Union, two wartime allies, were on the verge of war for the first time after the war, and the Cold War had its first real climax.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cold War