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Allied occupation of Germany
- London Six-Power ConferenceThe 1948 London Six-Power Conference left out the Soviet Union. Six nations planned a West Germany without it.
- Berlin Declaration (1945)Germany's May 1945 military surrender never said who would govern the country. The Berlin Declaration did.
- Allied plans for German industry after World War IIAfter World War II, the Allies aimed to shrink Germany to its 1932 level.
- Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was a communiqué, not a peace treaty, yet it shaped Germany until 1990.
- Berlin WallWeeks before the Berlin Wall went up, Walter Ulbricht said no one intended to build one.
- BizoneOn January 1, 1947, the Americans and British merged their zones of occupied Germany.
- Stalin NoteIn March 1952, Stalin offered to reunify Germany if it stayed neutral. Konrad Adenauer refused to test the offer.
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyThe Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany was signed in Moscow on the 12th of September 1990. Most people know it by a shorter name, the Two Plus Four Agreement. The two were West Germany and East Germany. The four were…
- Allied-occupied GermanyOn the 5th of June 1945, the Berlin Declaration ended Germany as a sovereign state.
- Tear down this wall!Aides called Reagan's Berlin Wall line "unpresidential", but he kept it. He told them, "I think we'll leave it in."
- Soviet occupation zone in GermanyIn April 1946, Soviet authorities forcibly merged two German parties into one. It became East Germany's governing party.
- Checkpoint CharlieIn October 1961, ten American and ten Soviet tanks faced off at Checkpoint Charlie.
- Berlin BlockadeIn June 1948, Stalin cut every road, rail line and canal into West Berlin.