The great Berlin Airlift. A rather dramatic logistics undertaking that saw enough food and other supplies flown in to keep the population alive, if not happy.
what was western allies response to the berlin blockade
Did the Berlin blockade force the western powers to leave the city
How the Soviet's react to the blockade
The West responded to the blockade by transporting supplies including food to West Berlin.
The Soviet Union did not blockade its own zone, so the blockade applied only to the three Western sectors of Berlin: it did not 'extend out'.
The Berlin Blockade was supposed to cause the allies to give up western Berlin to the Soviet forces, but instead the allies constantly airlifted supplies past the blockade until it was lifted.
The Soviets ended the blockade of West Berlin in 1949 because they realized it was not achieving their goal of forcing the Western Allies out of the city. The blockade had led to the Berlin Airlift, where the Allies supplied West Berlin by air, showing the Soviets that their blockade was ineffective.
Stalin. He was in power from the 1930s to the early 1950s. The Berlin Blockade occured in 1948.
The Berlin Air Lift, with which the Western Powers succeeded in supplying the city, thus going over the Soviet blockade.
The Soviets ended the blockade of West Berlin because they realized it was not achieving their goals and was causing international backlash. They also saw that the Western Allies were resolute in their support for West Berlin, making the blockade unsustainable.
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.
The Western powers airlifted supplies to Berlin, until the Soviets ended the blockade in 1949.