of the eastern blob countries.
             In June 1948, the three western powers united their zones with a new deutschmark. This financial union was the forerunner of a political union (3 zones = West Germany).
             The USSR was annoyed not to know about America's atom bomb (1945). The USSR gained the atom bomb in 1949 and both sides began to stockpile arms.
             The Yalta Conference in February 1945 was held in the USSR and attended by president Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. They agreed to divide Germany and Berlin into four zones - occupied by USA, USSR, Britain and France. They also agreed that the USSR should regain its land lost in Poland. Free elections were to be held in the countries freed from the Nazi rule. The United Nations was set up to try to maintain world peace. There were disagreements about the exact position of Poland's border with Germany a
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