USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the Potsdam conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin, the capital city situated in Soviet territory, was also divided into four occupied zones.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1949, Germany formally split into two independent nations: the Federal Republic of Germany (FDR or West Germany), allied to the Western democracies, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany), allied to the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three western Allies and the Soviet Union disagreed on many things and as time went on Germany was divided into two separate countries : East Germany, which had a Communist government and West Germany, which was a democratic state . Berlin was also divided into East and West Berlin.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union Occupies Eastern Europe At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany.

Detailed explanation-5: -Having experienced great losses as a result of German invasions in the First and Second World Wars, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin preferred that a defeated Germany be dismembered and divided so that it could not rise to its former strength to threaten European peace and security again.