Berlin blockage was crucial in the containment policy of the USA Hello, can you correct me please? Thank you! ->We can say that the Berlin blockage was crucial in the containment policy of the USA because Berlin was the example of the two models of society. In Germany and especially , in Berlin we could see differences between capitalism and communism, so the USA had to keep Berlin west American in order to show the supremacy of their model on the soviet one. The Americans had to keep Berlin because, if they left Berlin to the USSR, Staline would try to have the rest of Germany and in this case, the communist forehead would have been at the door of western Europe. ->So, it was a very hard power struggle between the USA and the USSR but with this, the USA had proved that they could manage with calm, intelligence and diplomacy a very delicate situation without starting a third world war. ->And finally, they show to other countries that they are powerful and rich, they can defend their allies and they can fight communism without a physical war. And this is a very strong message which is sent to other nations and that played a lot in the containment policy of the USA.