At the end of WW 2 the Russian forces got to Berlin first and a few days later the allies arrived. In negotiations the city of Berlin was divided into 4 sectors. The western powers got 3 of the four and Russia was given one sector. This sector became East Germany and the Berlin Wall was built by the Russians to keep the people of East Germany within its borders. The Brandenburg Gate was the checkpoint between the western sector and the Russian. This stayed this way until 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down.
East Germany, the former German Democratic Republic, was Communist when it was under Russian control following the end of World War II.
East Germany was a communist country with no elections. West Germany was democratic with elections.
East Germany (German Democratic Republic) was a communist client state of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1990. It was created from the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (1945-1949) following World War II.
East Germany was communist and West Germany was democratic.
Communist bloc consisted of Eastern European countries: Poland, Checkoslavakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, Yugoslavia and Albania. Democratic Western European countries were: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Greece, France, England, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.
The iron curtain was the border that divided Europe between the democratic west and the communist east. It lasted from 1945 to 1991.
soviet -> communist
A figurative iron curtain divided Europe into the Democratic West and Communist East. It cut Germany clean in half. Europe was constantly on its toes, each fearing the other side would strike either on them or at America, catching them in the middle.
After WW2 Germany was divided into the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland, west) and the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, east).
East Germany, the former German Democratic Republic, was Communist when it was under Russian control following the end of World War II.
The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into East and West Berlin. East Berlin, also called the Eastern Bloc, belonged to Soviet Russia and was communist. West Berlin was democratic.
The Iron Curtain was a metaphor for the Stalin's seemingly impenetrable partition of Europe between an authoritarian east and democratic west. Among the most symbolic manifestations to the Iron Curtain was the Berlin Wall.
The Iron Curtain divided Europe into two halves, east and west. The western democratic countries were on the side of the United States. The eastern communist countries were on the side of the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain fell when communism collapsed and the eastern European countries became democratic.
The Berlin Wall is located in Europe. It was a barrier that divided East and West Berlin, Germany, from 1961 until its fall in 1989. The wall symbolized the Cold War's division between the communist East and the democratic West. Today, remnants of the wall serve as historical landmarks and reminders of that era.
Well The Warsaw pact was announced immediately after the war was over. The Soviet Union had total domination over those states which became the U.S.S.R. Germany was split between east and west, one being totally democratic while the other was a State run by the Communist. Europe became divided at the end of world war 2 because of the Communist influence Russia had on a lot of neighboring countries.
During the cold war era each European country was classified as part of either Free Western Europe, or of Communist Eastern Europe which was mostly dominated by the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union broke up.
East Germany was a communist country with no elections. West Germany was democratic with elections.