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Berlin Crisis - Coggle Diagram
Berlin Crisis
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Economic Impact
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Other Countries
Soviet Union
With Germany's crisis, the Soviets cut some 2.5 million civilians in the three western sectors of Berlin off from access to electricity, as well as food, coal and other crucial supplies.
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Global Impact
With West Berlin geographically so close, many would simply abandon the east for west. The result was a mass exodus of skilled labour to the west. It is estimated that between 1949 and 1961, nearly 3 million people fled East Germany (Major, Patrick.
Although it was clear that major changes were going on in the Soviet Union even before then, the wall coming down between East and West Berlin drove home in a very dramatic and convincing way to Americans that the communist world was coming undone
