Keeping West Berlin supplied in this way cost the USA $350 million and Britain £17 million. West Berlin, like West Germany, was divided into three zones, one each for the British, French and Americans. Therefore, to Stalin, the Allies being in Berlin was the problem. Once Khrushchev’s deadline expired, any future access to West Berlin would be entirely a matter for the East German government. After the blockade was lifted in 1949, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union … It wasn’t until 1989 with the wall coming down of the Berlin … As a result, the United States began an airlift of supplies to the stranded citizens of West Berlin. Stalin responded by making his eastern controlled section of Berlin the German Democratic Republic (better known as East Germany). East Berlin and East Germany were controlled by … Many East Germans did not want to live in a communist country and crossed into West Berlin, where they could either settle or find transportation to West Germany and beyond. The Berlin Airlift was maintained for almost 12 months, keeping West Berlin supplied enough to survive. The Soviet Union took control of the eastern part of Germany, while France, Great Britain and the United States took control of the western part. At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Next, we'll find out why they built a wall through the middle of a city. After the Berlin Airlift, the unification of the three zones controlled by the western allies occurred in 1949.This formed the German Federal Republic; better known as West Germany. He gave the Western allies six months to finalise this. In 1948, when the Soviet Union’s blockade of Berlin prevented Western access to that city, the United States and the United Kingdom responded by initiating the Berlin airlift to keep food and supplies flowing to West Berlin and to maintain its connection to the West. At the Berlin Conference, the European colonial powers scrambled to gain control over the interior of the continent. The west controlled West Germany while the soviet government controlled Eastern Germany. In 1989, with communist control of East Germany crumbling, the Berlin Wall was finally torn down. The Soviets finally gave up, allowing truck and rail traffic to enter West Berlin once again. This also took place in 1949. The German capital of Berlin was also divided into four sections, even though Berlin itself was in the middle of the Soviet-controlled … At its peak, the airlift delivered more than 200,000 tons of cargo per month. Over the course of the next eleven months of the blockade, the Americans, assisted by the British and the French, supplied West Berlin entirely by air, landing planes filled with food, clothing, and coal for heat nearly every minute. This caused further escalation between the Soviets and Americans as Stalin mounted a blockade cutting off West Berlin from its allies and supplies. The following year, East and West Germany formally reunited. Khrushchev announced that West Germany, America, Britain and France should sign treaties to turn over control of West Berlin to the East German government. The City of Berlin, located 200 miles inside East Germany, was also divided. The biggest problem for Stalin was that the German people of the Russian controlled block could not see the prosperity that was occurring in the other zones – but they could see the difference in Berlin as three of the zones in Berlin were controlled by the Allies and prospered accordingly. Berlin happened to be located in Soviet controlled East Germany and was hundreds of miles inland cutting it off from free West Germany. Half of the city—West Berlin—was actually part of West Germany.