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.
a blockade of rail, river,and auto traffic
He set up a blockade of Berlin.
A continuous airlift of goods from Western Germany to Berlin.
Stalin started the Berlin Blockade in 1948 as a first step in a plan to pull West Germany into the Soviet sphere of influence. He expected West Berlin to eventually begin accepting supplies from Soviet East Germany, effectively bringing all of Berlin under Soviet control. He believed that if he could control Berlin, West Germany would soon follow.
The first move was when Joseph Stalin (leader of Russia) ordered the blockage of the land route from Berlin to west Germany. (The Berlin wall.)
a blockade of rail, river,and auto traffic
Stalin was determined to capture West Berlin and gain concessions from the West
Berlin Blockade
Stalin had no view on the Berlin Wall as he died more than 8 years before it was built.
He set up a blockade of Berlin.
No. Joseph Stalin has nothing to do with the Berlin Wall. In fact, it was created several years (eight to be specific) after his death.
Relations were made a lot worse as Berlin was more obviously divided. There were increased tensions between Russia and America because Stalin didn't want to allow the East and the West to join together and was trying to stop that. When the Berlin Airlift happened. it made Communism look bad which Stalin didn't like.
There's some confusion here. The Berlin Wall was built over eight years after Stalin's death ...
Stalin
He was the reason the Berlin Airlift took place. Berlin was in the Soviet sector of post-war Germany, but Berlin itself was divided much like the country. Stalin was upset with the Western alliance (U.S., Britain, and France) for producing the London Programme. The London Programme outlined the creation of a Western German state. Stalin stopped all rail, water and road traffic to and from Berlin in hope that the London Programme would be halted. This was legal because the Western alliance did not put in writing the free access to their respective sector of Berlin. The choices were to use military forcce to break the blockade of airlift all the supplies. Since no economy could support another world war they chose to airlift all the goods to Berlin. This disheartened Stalin and he eventually lifted the blockade of Berlin.
Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade in June 1948. He wished to obtain control over the city by forcing Berlin to depend on him for food and other necessities.
When the US announced its decision to consolidate the zones they controlled in Berlin, Stalin reacted by blocking access to those zones. This was known as the Berlin Blockade. The US and Britain countered with the Berlin Airlift.