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Q: Why did Stalin and the Soviet Union block access to West Berlin?
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How did the US and Soviet Union respond to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin?

How the Soviet's react to the blockade


Who was in power of the USSR during the Berlin blockade?

Stalin. He was in power from the 1930s to the early 1950s. The Berlin Blockade occured in 1948.


What did Stalin want to transform the Soviet Union into?

Stalin's goal was to turn the Soviet Union into a military and industrial superpower. Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952.


Leader of the soviet union during the war?

Joseph Stalin


What is Stalin's country?

Stalin was born in Georgia. He later became the leader of the Soviet Union.


What country did Stalin take over?

During World War 2, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.


What did stalin do industrialize the soviet union?

Stalin industrialized the Soviet Union by creating five year economic plans


Why did Stalin stop traffic into Berlin?

Stalin stopped traffic to Berlin in response to Britain and the U.S. changing the currency in their district of Germany. Stalin saw this as an economic threat and deprived Berlin as resources in an attempt to push them out of Germany.


What was the Berlin air-lift?

The relief provided by air by America, Britain and France to West Berlin when it was blockaded by Stalin's Soviet Union in 1948-49. It lasted for about 11 months until the Soviet Union abandoned the blockade.


Who led the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin or Karl Marx?

Joseph Stalin was a leader of the Soviet Union. Karl Marx was dead before the Soviet Union was ever formed.


How do you use Soviet Union in a sentence?

Answer:Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union.


What was the purpose of the Berlin Blockade?

In 1948 and 1949, Stalin decided to impose a blockade on West Berlin as part of an overall plan to bring West Berlin, then the whole of the western portion of Germany (still occupied by French, British, and American forces), into union with Soviet-controlled East Germany. By closing land-access to West Berlin, Stalin considered that the city would soon require Soviet assistance and thereby come under Soviet control.