What was the 1948-1949 Soviet blockade of Western access to West Berlin called?

• A. Berlin Blockade
• B. Berlin Airlift
• C. Berlin Wall
• D. Berlin Crisis

Answer: (A)

The key idea is that this event was the Soviet attempt to cut off all ground access to West Berlin, trapping the Western sectors. That action is named the Berlin Blockade. In response, the Allies organized the Berlin Airlift, delivering food, fuel, and supplies by air for nearly a year until the blockade ended. The other terms refer to different things: the Berlin Airlift is the relief operation that kept West Berlin supplied during the blockade, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier erected later in 1961, and the Berlin Crisis is a broader label for the period of Cold War tensions around Berlin.