When the western allies created West Germany as a nation in 1948, how did the Soviet Union respond?

The western allies’ creation of a separate West German state heightened Cold War tensions. The Soviet Union responded by blocking road, rail, and canal access to West Berlin in 1948, hoping to force the western allies out of the city. The allies supplied West Berlin by air instead, so the correct choice is “It established a blockade of West Berlin.”

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