WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After the war, Germany was controlled by outside countries to ensure it didn’t rise to power immediately. Which countries were involved?
A
US, France, England, Russia
B
US, Japan, Italy, France
C
Austria, Poland, Russia, France
D
Bavaria, Brandenburg, Potsdam, Nuremberg
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. The Soviet Union was determined to establish governments in Eastern Europe who were friendly to the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -The airlift, the most immediate and direct response to the blockade, began on June 26, 1948. Although NATO was created in April of 1949 to provide collective security from the Soviet Union, the alliance had been proposed before the blockade was initiated.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, outlined a strategy for Germany to avoid fighting at its eastern and western fronts simultaneously.

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