Westerners who ruled territories directly denied the influence of natives because
a)natives were likely to rebel under direct rule, so westerners needed to exert strict control.
b)westerners saw territories as an extension of a home country, so they demanded that natives conform.
c)natives under direct rule had weak leadership, so they did not want or expect to have influence.
d)westerners saw natives as racially superior, so they felt the need to demand that natives conform to western ways to protect their culture.

The answer is B) Westerners saw territories as an extension of a home country, so they demanded that natives conform.

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.