With the city destroyed, the Germans had a slight advantage, but the Russians were still in their own city ,and they still had one major advantage besides that. The Russian cold weather is brutal. The reason General Paulus urged Hitler to not let the Russians retreat to the interior of Russia was because of the winter cold. This is the main factor of the victory for the Red Army. The cold killed off most of Paulus's army which has always been a Russian strategy.
The Cold War was fought with thinly veiled threats and began due to the iron curtain. The Cold War began for numerous reasons. One being the iron curtain. In Document 1it states,“All these famous cities and the populations...are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow”. The iron curtain was a dividing line between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
When the wall finally fell it symbolized the end of the Cold War, which meant the tension among Russia and United States finally subsided. Unique Facts What I found to be interesting was that in a large area of communism they aloud half of a city to be free. What was also interesting was that Germany was split into four districts, the Eastern half went into Soviet territory. While the rest was divided among The United States, France and British territories. Berlin being the capitol was also divided in a similar manor, which created a was why there was free territory in East Germany at that time.
One political policy that was a major success were the newly developed Basic laws. These were introduced to try remove any remaining Nazi or was legacies. One of the Basic laws was that a new political parliament known as the Bundestag was to be set up. This created a democracy in West Germany. This was successful because Safe guards were put in place to ensure that no one could ever take all power as Hitler Did when he was President of the post war Reichstag.
The Berlin Wall During World War II, The success of West Berlin, “stuck like a bone in the soviet throat” as the soviet leader Nikita Khrushev put it. So the Russians knew that the allies in the west had to go, so they began their attempt to drive the United States, Great Britain, And France out of the western nation for good. In 1948, a Soviet blockade on West Berlin tried to starve them out of the City. But instead of complying and retreating from there, the strong allies supplied there stations from the air, which became known as the Berlin Airlift. The Berlin Airlift lasted more than a year and delivered more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, and other goods to West Berlin.
The Berlin blockade and airlift was more to blame than the Marshall plan for increasing cold war tension In this essay I shall explain why Berlin blockade contributed most to the changed relations, but also how the Marshall plan was important. The Marshall plan was created by George Marshall so that Trueman would keep his promise to contain communism. The Marshall plan gave 17 billion dollars to countries who were still recovering from WW1. This created tension because Western Europe could become more prosperous. This angered Stalin as he did not want West Germany to recover and be given Marshall Aid.
General Eisenhower actually made a sound military determination not to invade Berlin. His decision was supported by such compelling military strategic considerations as the preservation of the lives of soldiers under his command and the fact that an allied country, the USSR, was much closer in proximity to the battleground and better equipped to conduct the invasion of the then capital of Germany. Quite simply, the European Theatre was huge. As noted, most of the American and British forces were deployed in the western front of Europe, and their intelligence on what the USSR was doing from a military perspective was limited. Given the circumstances, Eisenhower’s decision was
The Berlin Wall was a physical symbol of the political and emotional differences between East Germany and West Germany. The Wall stood tall and strong through one of the most important times in the history of the world. The reason the wall was built actually has less to do with Germany than most people think, it has more to do with the fact that after World War II the United States and the rest of Europe could no longer agree with the Soviet Unions ideals. The Soviets wanted to form more communist governments
This is because Russia was Cuba’s ally, and did not want American influence in the Cuban government. USA sent money to the non-communists in Greece and provided them with weaponry and ammunition to defeat the communists. The plan was successful. Another important event was the Berlin wall that divided West and East Germany. Russia had control over the Eastern part, and had placed a wall after a mass migration from East to West Germany occurred.
Containment was not new in 1964 and 1965. It originates in the year following World War II. George Kenna’s famous 8,000-world telegram form Moscow to the U.S in February 1946 laid the foundation and had profound implications of U.S strategic thinking. The telegram was extremely well received in Washington because it offered an explanation and rationale for the uncooperative behavior of the Soviet Union (a world war II ally) in Europe. It also provided the guiding principles that United States leaders south as guidance for their actions toward the soviet containment.