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Reasons for the Berlin Crisis 1958-61 - Coggle Diagram
Reasons for the Berlin Crisis
1958-61
Actions of East Berliners
skilled workers leaving for west -
deteriorated economy
→
Brain drain
- instilled negative image on East
Refugee Crisis
- 2.6 million
→ Berlin offered
window
into thriving west -
new jobs, good wages, high living standards
→ loss of professionals made EG lose billions &
farmers
left leaving food shortages & fallow land
Americas actions
Creation of Bizonia as well as a new currency
U2 Crisis
- US spy plane flying over East Berlin - shot down
Ignoring Khrushchevs Ultimatum →
withdraw from Berlin within 6 months & make it free city
→ JFK increased
defence spending
→ increased
economic divergence
Khrushchevs actions
issuing of the Ultimatum - 1958
not admitting to fundamental problems w/ GDR
→
already responding to what was present
Actions of Moscow
Operation Rose 1961
- building of the Berlin wall
→ orders came from Moscow & was
unexpected
→ Berliners could no longer travel
International Relations
Potsdam 1945
→ military zones of occupation approved
→ therefore this caused initial divide
First Berlin Crisis 1948
- SU blocked westerns railway, road & canal access to Berlin