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The Allies (Britain, America and France) ran their zones differently to the areas controlled by Russia. Russia wanted to keep Germany as weak as possible to ensure that Russia itself was never attacked again by Germany. They also took from their zones whatever was needed by Russia so that it could be used in Russia itself. This way, Russia could start to rebuild itself at Germany's expense and the Germans would be kept poor.
The Allies believed that a strong Germany would enable democracy to prosper after the years of Nazi dictatorship. They also believed that Europe needed a strong Germany so that their economies would prosper. To enable their zones to work more effectively, the British, Americans and French decided to amalgamate their zones into one unit and introduced into that one unit a new currency - the Deutschmark. All four occupying forces had agreed to inform one another if changes were going to be made in their respective zones. This the Allies failed to do with regards to Russia.
The biggest problem for Stalin was that the
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The West Allies unified their occupation zones in Germany to form the German Federal Republic (GFR). During that period, the whole world stood dangerously on the edge of a breakout of nuclear war. On April 12, Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human in space when he completed one orbit in a 108 minute space flight aboard Vostok I.
In 1949, The USSR countered the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by the Allies by setting up the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON). From the attempts to keep the open door policy in China to
Article VII of the Lend-Lease act, free trade has been seen as central
to American security.
It might be asked why Roosevelt did not plot the fall of the
British Empire as well. “The two nations were constructed on opposite
and profoundly antagonistic principles. The inhabitants of Berlin could only receive food and other necessary rations through the allied airlift for eleven months until May 1949.
In June 1948, the three western powers united their zones with a new deutschmark. Economic Origins
Official America anti-Soviet policy began with the Truman Doctrine (March 1947) where American aid was offered to European countries which bordered onto Communist countries. The Russian zone became the communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR). 5 million tons in supplies were delivered. When USA announced its decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, the USSR was annoyed that USA had developed the bomb secretly.
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