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

d

Explanation:an anecdote about escalating tension

D - an anecdote about escalating tension

a

explanation:

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "