Discuss and account for one of the Berlin crises which erupted during the Cold War.
In this essay I will look at the Berlin Blockade of 1948. This was the first of two Berlin crisis's and has often been cited as the starting point of the cold war. The cold war has often been described as a clash of beliefs, between that of capitalist beliefs and that of communist beliefs. In 1948 Stalin ordered a blockage on all ground access routes between West Germany and West Berlin, effectively trying to starve out the inhabitants of West Berlin, which at the time were Western allies and Western Berliners. I will look at the events leading up to this blockage and the influence that these had on the subsequent crisis. I will look at some of the possible causes for this growing tension between the East and the West and the resulting effect that this tension had. Having done this I will look at the success of the Berlin airlift and the implications this had for future East and West......
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