The Beginning of the Cold War
... annexed into territories occupied by different forces. • Soviets take East Germany, US and the Allies occupy West Germany. • Berlin is divided in half. • Churchill claims an “iron curtain has divided East and West. ...
... annexed into territories occupied by different forces. • Soviets take East Germany, US and the Allies occupy West Germany. • Berlin is divided in half. • Churchill claims an “iron curtain has divided East and West. ...
Containing Communism
... The west wanted Germany united, the Soviets wanted it divided. The three zones of west Germany were reunited and East Germany remained a separate country. After the three western zones of Germany were reunited, the Soviet Union retaliated by cutting off all highway, water, and rail traffic into the ...
... The west wanted Germany united, the Soviets wanted it divided. The three zones of west Germany were reunited and East Germany remained a separate country. After the three western zones of Germany were reunited, the Soviet Union retaliated by cutting off all highway, water, and rail traffic into the ...
Allied-occupied Austria
The Allied occupation of Austria lasted from 1945 to 1955. Austria had been regarded by Nazi Germany as a constituent part of the German state, but in 1943 the Allied powers agreed in the Declaration of Moscow that it would be regarded as the first victim of Nazi aggression, and treated as a liberated and independent country after the war.In the immediate aftermath of the war, Austria, like Germany, was divided into four occupation zones and jointly occupied by the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France. Vienna, like Berlin, was similarly subdivided but the central district was administered jointly by the Allied Control Council.Whereas Germany was divided into East and West Germany in 1949, Austria remained under joint occupation until 1955; its status became a controversial subject in the Cold War until the warming of relations known as the Khrushchev Thaw. After Austrian promises of perpetual neutrality, Austria was accorded full independence on 12 May 1955 and the last occupation troops left on 25 October that year.