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Cold War Division of Germany

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Post War Germany
-Economic infrastructure had largely collapsed
-Inflation was rampant
-Food shortages
Germany divided into 4 zones of Allied military occupation
-American
-British
-French
-Soviet
1949
-The British, American, and French zones merged and formed the Federal Republic of Germany
-The Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic
German Political Life Reconstructed
-Mainly in the West side
-New Parties
-Christian Democratic Union
-Christian Social Union
-Social Democrats
-Free Democrats
West Germany
-Stable western democracy
East Germany
-A Stalin-style Socialist state
-Formed into a centralized and dictatorial regime
German Relations
-Tensions between Communism and Democracy
Building of the Wall
-Divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
-Constructed by the GDR
-The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification
-Germany reunited after the end of the Cold War
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