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The Berlin Airlift demonstrates America's willingness to support the free people of Europe, as the Stalin led USSR was trying to spread communism throughout Europe. Stalin prevented the U.S. from bringing much needed supplies to the people of West Berlin since they would have to travel through USSR controlled territory. Rather than risk war by pushing our way through the blockade on the ground, Truman ordered 'Operation Vittles'. An airlift of over 750 planes a day bringing in food, clothing, fuel, medicine, coal, etc. to the stranded and surrounded people of West Berlin. After over a year, Stalin recognizing that we would continue to uphold our commitment to the free people of West Berlin, lifted the blockade. This was an important victory for the U.S. in the early stages of the Cold War.