USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The GDR was established in the Soviet-occupied zone of former Nazi Germany, while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, was established in the three Western US–UK–French occupied zones.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the end of World War II, the main Allied powers-the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union-divided Germany into two zones. The Soviet Union occupied East Germany and installed a rigidly controlled communist state.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In 1945, the Soviet occupation zone consisted primarily of the central portions of Prussia. After Prussia was dissolved by the Allied powers in 1947, the area was divided between the German states (Länder) of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

Detailed explanation-5: -When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, however, Soviet troops were in complete control of eastern Germany and all of Berlin.