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With the beginning of the Cold War, the remaining territory of Germany was divided between the Western Bloc led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc led by the USSR. Two separate German countries emerged:
26 kwi 2015 · Division of Germany and Austria. With the Nazis defeated, the four Allied powers —Britain, France, the US, and the Soviet Union— divided Germany into four occupation zones, marking additional German territory in the east for later Polish and Soviet annexation.
Germany was split into two blocs after World War II, with the East under Soviet influence and the West under Western influence.
27 kwi 2022 · Instead of administering and policing Germany side by side, as the Allies did in postwar Austria, the decision was made at Potsdam to divide Germany into four distinct occupation zones, one...
1 dzień temu · For purposes of occupation, the Americans, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into four zones. The American, British, and French zones together made up the western two-thirds of Germany, while the Soviet zone comprised the eastern third.
20 gru 2015 · This map, created by the United States Army in 1946, depicts the partition of Germany between the various Allied powers after the end of World War II.
Discover the division and occupation of Germany post-World War II. Explore the political and geographical changes that led to a split nation through interactive maps on The Map as History platform.
