The Berlin Blockade Was

question 137

Multiple Choice

The Berlin Blockade was

• A) a barrier erected by Allied forces in postwar Berlin to shield them from angry protests of starving residents.
• B) a means for the United States to justify its threat to mobilize Allied forces stationed in Turkey.
• C) erected because the United States threatened to invade the Soviet Union.
• D) the Soviet Union's reaction to the establishment of a separate currency in the western occupied zones.
• E) a temporary defensive measure by the United States that was soon taken down.

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