Complete 8 pages APA formatted article: Berlin Airlift. This study outlines that&nbsp.the divergence of views on the status of Berlin soon emerged. The Soviet Union considered the presence of the

Complete 8 pages APA formatted article: Berlin Airlift. This study outlines that&nbsp.the divergence of views on the status of Berlin soon emerged. The Soviet Union considered the presence of the other three Western nations only as a temporary occupation. As Joseph Stalin claimed, in economic and administrative terms, the whole of Berlin belonged to the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany.&nbsp. On the other hand, the Western Powers asserted that the citizens of Berlin had the right to choose and determine the future.&nbsp.&nbsp.

From this paper it is clear that&nbsp.the rift was further aggravated given the difference in Soviet Union’s and Western nation’s viewpoints regarding the economic recovery plan for Germany.&nbsp. The former believed that Germany should be incapacitated to launch another war since Stalin assumed that Germany along with Japan could once again be perils to Soviet Union by 1960s.&nbsp. On the contrary, the Western Powers, particularly the US, stressed that the post war reconstruction of Europe primarily depends on the rebuilding of German economy and industry.&nbsp.In line with the Western recovery plan, the unification of the Western-occupied sectors in Germany, dubbed as the Marshall Plan, was announced on March 6, 1948. The three Western zones would be consolidated with an independent federal government.&nbsp.In this regard, the Soviet Union withdrew from the Allied Control Council administering over Berlin due to the perceived violation of the Potsdam Agreement by the Western Powers.