Eisenhower is the one who said, "you refuse to withdraw troops from West Berlin." He said this in reference to Truman who had failed to withdraw US troops from Berlin.
the American, British, and French zones of Germany were unified.
a reunification of the three western zones of occupation
the 1958 Berlin Crisis developed when Nikita Khrushchev demanded that the western powers pull all of their forces out of Berlin. This caused a crisis regarding the ownership of the city and resulted in the birth of the Berlin Wall.
The two western powers flew supplies over the blockade into West Berlin. This act is commonly called the BERLIN AIRLIFT. The Soviet Union revered policy after a year when the Soviets ended the blockade and pemited land-transport of goods to West Berlin.
West Berlin became prosperous while East Berlin struggled with communist pigheadedness and incompetence. Nobody tried to escape from West Berlin to East Berlin.
The Berlin wall separated east and west Berlin
During WW2, yes! American and British (and later also French) troops were admitted to West Berlin by the Sovier Union in July 1945.
West Berlin was created in 1949.
Too many people were leaving East Germany through West Berlin. from 1949 - 60 it was believed 3million people had left for the West. Eastern Europe was communist at the time so there were restrictions on travelling, soviet troops were lining every communist country. But as West Berlin was capitalist they had the freedom to travel and weren't linned with soviet troops so Eastern Europeans were travelling to East Germany to East Berlin and through West Berlin they could fly out to another country. Skilled workers were leaving East Germany which would decrease their economy but boost West Berlin's with flight money. Khrushchev (Head of Soviet union and East Germany at the time) was getting angry so built the wall to stop them. God Bless x
The Berlin Wall surrounded West Berlin. Therefore... Inside the Berlin Wall: West Berlin Outside the Berlin Wall: The two closest cities were Potsdam to the west, and East Berlin to the east.
Stalin was determined to capture West Berlin and gain concessions from the West
Berlin. It surrounded West Berlin, so people couldn't get from communist East Germany into Capitalist West Berlin.