But Berlin was deep in the Soviet section of Germany. Although the Russians agreed to the division of Berlin in 1944, they refused to assure that the Americans, French, and British would be allowed to enter the city. Tension between the two sides escalated until June 1948, when the Soviets blocked all western access to the capital. In this first real crisis of the Cold War, the West was not going to be denied by the Soviets. Since such tension was typical in the divided city, it should come as no surprise that Berlin in the early 1950s was a city of intrigue, espionage, and danger. What technique does Janeczko use to hook readers in the second paragraph of the introduction to Chapter 5? a story about how the Cold War began a quotation from someone who lives in Berlin a question about the division of Berlin an anecdote about escalating tension