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The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War, which was just getting started. Stalin was taking over eastern Europe by salami tactics and Czechoslovakia had just turned Communist (March 1948). On the other side, the USA had just adopted the Truman Doctrine to contain the USSR.
If the US had sent in the army it would have been war. Truman decided on the best available option; feed west Berlin through the air. The most famous pilot, who was part of the Berlin Airlift, is Gail Halvorsen, who dropped candy attached to little parachutes shortly before landing. -The blockade lasted 318 days (11 months).-In the winter of 1948â49 Berliners lived on dried potatoes, powdered eggs and cans of meat.