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The point is made in the passage that, during the early decades of the Cold War, ----.
Today, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, in which the Soviet
Union demanded that Western powers cut their ties
with Berlin, may be the most forgotten crisis in the
annals of the Cold War. Even most Berliners who
lived through the event remember little about it. Yet
this crisis over Berlin brought America and the Soviet
Union, the two superpowers of the post-World War II
period, close to war. In fact, since the very end of
World War II, Berlin had been the centrepiece of a
struggle between these two superpowers. It was here
that World War II ended in 1945 when, following the
occupation and defeat of Nazi Germany by the allied
armies of the United States, Britain, and France from
the west, and the Soviet Union from the east, the city
had been captured and divided into the separate
zones of East and West Berlin. Soon afterwards
Germany had itself split into East and West, and the
border between the two had become the dividing line
(the so-called “iron curtain”) between Sovietcontrolled
Eastern Europe and free, capitalist
Western Europe. Thus, situated behind this iron
curtain and stuck a hundred miles inside Eastern
territory, West Berlin was claimed, protected and
supplied by the Western powers. In 1948, Stalin
imposed a blockade, cutting West Berlin off from its
Western suppliers. The United States responded with
an airlift, keeping the zone alive for more than 300
days before Allied access was restored.