USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin . The crisis was a result of competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin’s two million citizens. At the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four sectors administered by the four major Allied powers: the USSR, the United States, Britain and France.

Detailed explanation-3: -In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin.