How was Germany divided at the end of world war 2 how would this create a conflict?

Answer 1

Germany was conquered by an alliance of primarily four countries, Britain, France, Russia, and the US (considerable contributions to the war effort were also made by Canada and Australia but they were not the primary allies). Hence when Germany was conquered it was divided up into four sectors, one for each of these allies. The British, French, and US sectors were combined into what became West Germany, and the Russian sector became East Germany. The capital city of Berlin was located in East Germany even though part of it, West Berlin, was considered to be part of West Germany. This made it possible for East Germany to cut West Berlin off from its land based supply lines. During the Berlin Crisis, supplies had to be flown in by helicopter.