Berlin Wall
Background
After the end of World War II the victors: the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union divided Germany into four occupation zones, each one controlled by one of the four countries. Berlin also divided into four zones, the same way the rest of Germany did. At first, Berlin's citizens could move freely between the zones to work or visit family and friends. The U.S., British and French zones became capitalist and democratic, which formed into the Federal Republic of Germany (and West Berlin) in 1949. The Soviet zone became a communist dictatorship, which in turn formed the German Democratic Republic (including East Berlin) the same year.
Divergence of German states
From 1948 onwards, West Germany developed into a western capitalist country with a social market economy and a democratic Allies while the communist Soviet Union argued over how to govern Berlin. Berlin was in the Soviet part of Germany, an island surrounded by capitalism. Western nations......
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