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"The Occupation" means the time after enemy troops had overrun a country and were still there, controlling day to day life. After Germany had overrun France, for instance, and before France was liberated by Allied troops in 1944-45, France was often called "occupied France". Allied troops went on to overrun Germany and Japan, having already taken most of Italy. The Occupation might generally be thought of as continuing after the war was over, until a civilian government was created in the former enemy nation. Until a civilian government was allowed, Military Government ran the country, under command of the occupying powers. But Allied troops never left Germany or Japan. Germany was divided into four zones - Russian, French, British and American. The Russian zone was East Germany and they set up a communist "civilian" government in East Germany, and Russian troops remained there until the Cold War ended in 1989. The western allies set up a West German state in 1951, in which the citizens were free to vote and practice democracy, but British and American troops remained to help keep the West Germans from being taken over by the Soviets and East Germans. There are still US bases in Germany, though the Cold War ended and Germany was reunified into a single nation twenty years ago. During the Cold War Berlin was ninety miles deep in the Russian Zone, but was divided between the four powers. Berlin was thus often the point of confrontation between the western allies and the Soviets.

During the occupation of Japan General MacArthur ran the country, and he and his staff wrote the first Constitution the Japanese had, which they still use. There are also still US bases in Japan, helping Japan guard against the menace of communist China.

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