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COLD WAR HISTORY

• This was a state of political and military tension after WWII
• These tensions were over a clash of different beliefs and ideology
• The Cold War started in 1947 and ended in 1991
• The Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union
• The war brought the worlds superpowers to the brink of disaster

COUNTRIES INVOLVED

• East Germany Italy
• West Germany Belgium
• Soviet Union France
• United States United Kingdom
• Hungary Canada

GERMANYS INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLD WAR

• Germany was divided into four zones of Allied military occupation: American, French, British, and Soviet.
• During the Cold War, Germany became the center for all the tensions between Democracy and Communism
• The end of World War Two left Russia in possession of all of Germany up to 300 miles west of Berlin.
• The Berlin Blockade began in mid 1948 as Russian forces surrounded West Berlin
• In 1961, Berlin, the last place through which immigrants could leave East Germany, was blocked by the Berlin Wall

THE END OF THE COLD WAR

• The unraveling of the SOVIET BLOC began in Poland in June 1989 with a new government being formed
• East and west Germany started tearing down the Berlin Wall in 1889
• Many Americans felt they had won the Cold War but others taught no one won
• Many people got fed up with the way the Soviet Union was running their country so they had a rebellion
• Overall the war cost many lives and lots of money