Political authority and government 1945–1949: post-war occupation and division; issue of Berlin and the blockade; division of Germany
After World War Two, the four Allied powers — the USA, USSR, Britain, and France — divided Germany into occupation zones. Growing tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union turned that temporary division into two separate German states by 1949.
Real World
During the Berlin Blockade (June 1948 – May 1949), Western Allied aircraft made over 200,000 flights to supply West Berlin with food and coal, turning a single city into the frontline symbol of Cold War division that would define Germany for the next forty years.
Exam Focus
Sequence events precisely — Potsdam (1945), Marshall Plan (1947), Blockade (1948), and the two states (1949) — to show how division developed step by step.
Essay Framework
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