COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Stalin prevented resources and supplies from reaching West Berlin, hoping to starve the W.Berliners into accepting Soviet leadership
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Stalin prevented resources and supplies from reaching West Berlin unless they would agree to his rule under Communism
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Both answers are correct
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -It provoked genuine fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated the Allies plans to set up the state. It also hastened the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an American-Western European military alliance.
Detailed explanation-4: -On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin’s two million citizens.