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Berlin Blockade was important because it was tangible sign of the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union. After World War II, the Berlin wall separated Berlin into East and West Berlin. The Soviets controlled East Berlin (and East Germany), while the Germans controlled West Berlin and Western Germany. The other symbolic thing about it, was how the USA airlifted food and supplies to East Berlin against the wishes of the Soviets. This activity could have easily triggered another war.

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Extend speech: U.S.-Soviet Tension Builds

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Extend speech: U.S.-Soviet Tension Builds

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On February 28, 1946, Secretary of State James Byrnes addresses the Overseas Press Club to discuss the purposes of the United Nations. In his speech, Byrnes makes an indirect reference to the Soviet Union when he declares that the United States is prepared to "act to prevent aggression."

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Berlin Blockade

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C-47 Skytrains unloading at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift.

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Berlin Blockade caused Stalin to lose face against the Americans. The public, seeing Capitalism's victory over Communism, were disturbed by the aggression of Stalin's actions; greater opposition to Communism began to grow, and the relations between East and West further stagnated, the rift between ideologies spreading ever wider apart. NATO was established during the Berlin Blockade - the perception of the Soviet Union as a threat had been increased by the blockade.

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It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin.

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24/04/1948 to 12/05/1949