COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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wanted to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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used economic sanctions to achieve its foreign policy goals
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was willing to use military force in situations that challenged its power
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hoped to advance its economy through cultural exchange
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin Crisis of 1948–1949 solidified the division of Europe. Shortly before the end of the blockade, the Western Allies created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany.
Detailed explanation-3: -Berlin blockade, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, imposed the Berlin Blockade from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany. The Western Allies responded with a massive airlift to come to West Berlin’s aid.