Reasons+for+Division

**Reasons for Division** **Reason 1: Foreign influence **  ->Germany was split into 4 zones to the Four Powers (France, U.K, U.S, and Russia) (The Berlin Wall. P. 12)

-> Plan was to give the control back to its citizens eventually. (p. 12)

->France, U.K, U.S followed the promise, but Soviet didn’t. (p. 12)  -> Soviet put its army to eastern part and secluded it from the Western part (blockade) (Modern World History, P. 476-477)



**Reason 2: Difference in preference for government system, or ideology. ** 

-East: Socialism (Communism) (The Berlin Wall, p. 14)

-West: Democracy and Capitalism. (p. 14)



**Reason 3: After the division, two sides went to “Cold War”-like situation, where two Super Powers, U.S, and USSR were opposing each other **  -Soviet provided East with weapon, U.S provided West with weapon. (The Fall of the Berlin Wall, p. 18) // - “Each had hundreds of missiles, aimed at the other..Many people in the world were afraid that there would be a nuclear war" ( The Fall of the Berlin Wall, p. 28) //  - " //Be// //rlin, the German capital, became ground zero in the fight over which ideology//  // w ould prevail in Europe" //  (//The Berlin Wall//, p. 7)

 - Soviet broke the plan to give control back to its citizens. (The Fall of the Berlin Wall, p. 19)





 


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