WORLD 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: -Germany was divided after WWII because it was to blame for WWI and WWII. The Allied Powers did not want Germany to have to possibility of waging another war. Germany had also forced ethnic Germans out of the country, and raped, and starved many of the German citizens.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, and Britain and France’s declaration of war on Germany two days later marks the beginning of World War II. After the declaration of war, western Europe saw very little land or air active military confrontation at first, and the period was termed the “Phoney War".

Detailed explanation-4: -At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany. Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones to be administered by the four countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -By 1948, a new form of international tension had emerged–Cold War–between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. In the next 20 years, the Cold War spawned many tensions between the two superpowers abroad and fears of Communist subversion gripped domestic politics at home.

Detailed explanation-6: -Germany’s failure to defeat the RAF and secure control of the skies over southern England made invasion all but impossible. British victory in the Battle of Britain was decisive, but ultimately defensive in nature – in avoiding defeat, Britain secured one of its most significant victories of the Second World War.