What city in europe was blockaded following World War 2?

Answer 1

In 1948-49, Berlin was famously blockaded by the Soviet Union.

After World War II ended, the four major Allied powers (the Soviet Union, USA, UK, and France) divided up Germany to control it in the aftermath of the Nazi regime. Likewise, Berlin was divided between the same four countries. Later, in 1949, the French, American, and British parts of Germany were merged together and became the Federal Republic of Germany, more commonly known as West Germany (for simplicity's sake, I shall refer to it as West Germany even though it technically didn't exist yet).

The same sectors of Berlin also merged to become West Berlin. However, Berlin, including West Berlin, lay almost dead center in the middle of the Soviet-controlled portion of Germany- which would eventually become the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.

However, almost immediately after Germany surrendered, the Soviets and the other Allies began to distrust each other. Only a few special highways, trains, and waterways were allowed to bring people from West Germany to West Berlin. For complicated reasons I won't get into here, in 1948, the Soviets cut off those ways of traveling, blockading the city. They attempted to starve West Berlin into surrendering and joining the Soviet side.

The blockade was foiled when the Western Allies used airplanes to bring supplies to West Berlin- this became known as the Berlin Airlift. If the Soviets had shot down the supply planes, they would have caused World War III to begin, so they wisely decided not to do so. World War II had just ended, and everyone was still recovering from the destruction of that war.

In summer 1949, almost a year after the blockade began, the Soviets finally ended the blockade.