In my paper, I will focus on how the Berlin Blockade affected the United States’ relationship with the Soviet Union. Things had deteriorated following the end of WWII, but they were still malleable. Winston Churchill’s speech in 1946, famously known as the “Iron Curtin,” attests to this lack of certainty in politics following the war. Did the Berlin Blockade create the perceptions that it would be impossible to continue on friendly grounds with the Soviet Union? The Berlin Blockade is seen now as the final blow to the Allied Powers alliance and the ignition of the Cold War, but did those living at the time perceive it as such? I will examine how the United States government and media in the United States reacted, and if they saw it as an unforeseen
