The airlift was a resounding success and led to the first allied victory in the cold war. This was before the development of the jet airliner, so all goods were flown on propeller driven planes with a much smaller cargo capacity. Rather than start a war or turn West Berlin over to the communists, the allies launched a massive airlift of supplies into the city. In 1948, the communists closed the land corridors to West Berlin in an attempt to "starve" the allies out. With very little productive capability, West Berlin was at the mercy of the level of shipments of vital goods from outside the city and that access was controlled by the communists. Access to West Berlin was via land and air corridors across miles of East German territory. A., France and Great Britain, occupied sectors of what became West Berlin. The Soviets occupied the area known as East Berlin and each of the other main powers, the U.S. While there had been agreement concerning zones of occupation in Germany, West Berlin immediately became a sticking point. Once the war in Europe was over, the sometimes strained relationship between the Soviet Union and the western allies began to fall apart. The first major battle of that war was "fought" in West Berlin in 1948.
While he had a part in it, the major contributors to the American victory were Harry Truman and George Marshall. The modern members of the Republican party are fond of saying that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War versus the Soviet Union.
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