COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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He wanted to make the people dependent on communist Germany for their needs
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He hated Berlin
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The railroads were broken and still needed to be fixed after the war
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The people of Berlin were very wealthy and did not need his help
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Detailed explanation-1: -What caused the Berlin Blockade? Stalin wanted Germany to remain weak, as a strong Germany could represent a threat to the Soviet Union. The Western Allies disagreed and were encouraging Germany to rebuild in the Western sectors. This angered Stalin who decided to force the Allies out of Berlin.
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: -The allies wanted a strong, democratic Germany acting as a buffer against the communist states of Eastern Europe. In contrast, Stalin wanted to: weaken Germany as a punishment for the war; help rebuild the USSR by stealing German industrial technology; make communism seem more attractive to the Germans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Having experienced great losses as a result of German invasions in the First and Second World Wars, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin preferred that a defeated Germany be dismembered and divided so that it could not rise to its former strength to threaten European peace and security again.