What is one reason that more people didn’t foresee the economic collapse of the 1930s? a) few people understood the risks involved with buying stock on loan. b) the signals of economic slowdown did not appear to be serious to economists or politicians. c)politicians, economists, and investors had a limited amount of economic data available to them at the time. d) the press focused its attention on the successes from wall street rather than true state of the economy.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.