1. What is Source 37 (p. 75) saying about Josip Tito, leader of Yugoslavia? Yugoslavia is a communist country and so, Source 37 is saying that Josip Tito,the leader of Yugoslavia, is betraying communism by taking money from the United States, because the money that Tito is accepting is money that is suppose to make countries stronger, and so make the countries strong enough to get rid of communism.
2. Why do you think Stalin was so hostile to Tito? Stalin was so hostile to Tito because, Yugoslavia, the country that Tito ruled, was the only eastern, communist, European country that did not follow Stalin's orders. And so, Tito began accepting money from the United States, something that Stalin had forbade the eastern, communist, European countries to do, which further angered Stalin.
3. Look back at the map in Source 27 on page 71. How does the geographical position of Yugoslavia help to explain why Stalin did not take any direct action (such as sending in troops) against Tito? The geographical position of Yugoslavia helps explain why Stalin didn't take direct action against Yugoslavia in that, Yugoslavia was one of the farthest away countries from the Soviet Union, therefore it would have taken much more time, food, supplies, and fuel to take any direct action against Yugoslavia.
4. Read Source 40 (p. 77). What reasons did the Soviet Union give for cutting off West Berlin? The Soviet Union gave the reasons that there were technical difficulties, and so all traffic had to be stopped, and using a similar reason the Soviets stopped all barge traffic, finally the Soviets said that that there was a shortage of coal, and so, the Soviets had to disrupt electrical power from Soviet power plants to Western sectors.
5. Why do you think the USA did not believe these were genuine reasons? The United States did not believe that these reasons were genuine because all of the reasons happened convenientally at the same time, relations with the Soviet Union had been shaky in recent times, and so the United States would have been more suspicious at any actions that the Soviet Union took, and because all of these reasons were obviously the perfect cover for the Soviet Union to seperate West Germany from East Germany.
6. How do Sources 41–43 differ in their interpretation of the blockade? The Sources differ in that Source 41, which was written by an American Historian, says that it was the Soviets fault that the blockade continued for many years, and Source 43, which was written by a Soviet Historian, says that the blockade continued for many years because the Americans "refused to yield".
7. Which do you think is the most useful source for a historian studying the Berlin Blockade? I think that Source 43 is the most useful source for a historian studying the Berlin blockade, because Source 43 shows the historian what it was like living in West Berlin during the blockade. However, the historian would have to be careful about trusting the source too much because the Source was written by a Soviet historian during the Cold War and so the author may have exaggerate how bad it was lving in West Berlin during the blockade.
8. Which source do you think gives the most reliable view of the blockade?
I don't think that either source is more reliable than the other, because both sources were written when the Cold War was still going, and both sources were written by historians from the opposing sides; Source 41 was written by an American historian , and Source 43 was written by a Soviet historian.