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What prompted the United States to implement the Berlin Airlift?

  a.

The U.S. did so as a protest against the Soviet uniting its occupation zones into one unified state - East Germany. 

  b.

The Soviets protested the unification of the three western zones into a West Germany, and so blocked imports into Berlin.

  c.

The Soviets wanted to take over Czechoslovakia, which prompted a show of force by the Western democracies. 

  d.

The U.S. wanted to aid people in East Berlin with the goal of undermining Soviet control over East Germany. 

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