COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Soviet Union
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East Germany
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West Germany
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United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -The City of Berlin, located 200 miles inside East Germany, was also divided. Half of the city-West Berlin-was actually part of West Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -East Berlin, German Ost Berlin, eastern part of the city of Berlin (q.v.) that served as the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until the reunification of the German state in 1990.
Detailed explanation-3: -West Berlin was 160 km (100 mi) east and north of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945.
Detailed explanation-4: -Germany’s division after the war put Berlin entirely within the territory of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany). The city itself echoed the national partition-East Berlin being the capital of East Germany and West Berlin a Land (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany).
Detailed explanation-5: -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.