-the first berlin crisis (blockade airlift)..
-stalin wanted to cut off access to berlin and takeover the city.
-no roads or rail roads could be used to enter or leave berlin
-2.5 million people were at risk
-so they put up a blockade
-failed for the soviet union
-the us saw a blockade as a test of commitment
-that led to airlift
-the berlin airlift
-airlifts began in june 1948 until september 1949
-was to supply the necessities to west berlin by air
-there was a daily food ration
-1,534 tons were needed daily to keep over 2.5 million people alive
-not only food was needed but gas, oil, coal, medicine and clothes were needed.
-over 277,000 flights were made.. multiple flights a day
-the ussr coukld shoot them down.. start a war
-they didn't do anything
-may 1949 the russians realized that the berlin blockade wasn't working so they lifted the restrictions
-split into two seperate countries.. the west became the federal republic and the east became the democratic republic
-china becomes communists..
-warlord era..
-1916 through 1928
-warlords fought battles believing they would be ruler
-controlled large portion of northern china
-nationalist leader sun yat sen died in 1925, chiang kai shek became ther leader
-he wanted the country to be under control of KMT
-chaing started the northern expedition
-recruit warlords and armies
-communists were in the kuomintang
-chiang hated what communism brought in
-communist were pushed out by chiang
-mao started his own force and communist society
-april 12 of 1927 chiang arrested and executed hundreds of communists.
-mao formed an alliance with zhu de and lin biao to start an army
-began the red army
-the war began in april 1927
-it was fought between kmt and ccp
-both sides fought to transform china
-in 1934, mao and the communist force was surrounded and it resulted the "long march"
-many retreated to regroup and attack again
-mao regrouped in jiangxi and marched north to reunite
-1936 the long march ended and they were known as the union of three armies
-july 7th, 1937 - september 9, 1945
-republic of china and empire of japan
-before 1937 they fought in localized engagements
-beginning of full scale war after invasion of manchuria
-northeast army of zhang xueling suffered major casualties
-kmt was forced to side with ccp by zhang in desperation
-mao seized portions of land around china in 1940
-soviet colunteers, germany, and the us helped china
-japanese surrendered in mainland china and taiwan was reclaimes
-largest asian war
-rise of communism
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