However, this short lived friendship inevitably turned into a brutal competition for the most powerful country in the world. Seeing this number as very damaging and unsustainable to the economy of the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union prompted their East German counterparts to tighten control over their borders. The border between the West and East Germany was locked down with a large barbed-wire fence with guard towards interspersed throughout, in response to the Soviet command.
Despite this, the border between West and East Berlin was not sealed off, however citizens had to apply for and carry a pass whenever they needed to cross the border. This pass system would do little to stem the number of defections. Most countries resisted Communism so Staling forced them to be Communist or have very similar ideals by helping overthrow their local governments or bribing the leaders of said countries.
One of the main countries that resisted was Poland but the Soviets just pushed them to the side like an older brother might do but still appeasing them enough to not attack them by keeping contact with them for economic porperces but not supporting them in any other ways than that. Another thing that really helped the Soviets gain power in the area was that while they were having the countries around them turn Communist while the European countries complained and tried to tell the United States and Great Britain they just ignored the small inconsequential countries.
What differed this time from when they had tried a similar thing was this time most of their Communist Regimes did not fall apart or be overthrown unlike in Eastern European countries and their leaders that were not Communist or under the blanket of Soviet influence started seeing the Soviets and their biggest enemy instead of the most previously Germany since now the Russians were make most of Eastern Europe their puppet states.
President Roosevelt died in April and succeeded by Harry S. Truman, which did not trust Stalin and agreed with Churchill. Truman and Churchill both opposed the Soviet 's support and later control of the Polish government that had been in exile in London.
In an Allied-occupied Germany zones of occupation formed a framework of governmental control. In at the Allied conference in San Francisco the multi-national United Nations was established to maintain world…. This is important because Soviet Union had to protect itself from the attack. German attacked Soviet Union, so Soviet Union must attacked back. According to Earl F. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union.
On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances:. Physically, the Iron Curtain took the form of border defenses between the countries of Europe in the middle of the continent.
People in the West expressed opposition to Soviet domination over the buffer states, leading to growing fear that the Soviets were building an empire that might threaten them and their interests. In return, Stalin promised the Western Allies he would allow those territories the right to national self-determination. Despite Soviet cooperation during the war, these concessions left many in the West uneasy.
In particular, Churchill feared that the United States might return to its prewar isolationism, leaving the exhausted European states unable to resist Soviet demands.
He asserted that to put a brake on this phenomenon, the commanding force of and strong unity between the UK and the U. Much of the Western public still regarded the Soviet Union as a close ally in the context of the recent defeat of Nazi Germany and of Japan. Made of reinforced concrete and wire mesh, the Berlin Wall stretched for kilometres.
It had a heavily controlled no-man's land on the eastern side. Eastern European citizens were only allowed to visit the West under strict conditions and those who tried to cross over without permission did so at great risk. About people died trying to escape East Germany, at least at the Berlin Wall, according to historians. One man crossed via a wire cable shot by bow and arrow from the roof of a building to a relative on the other side.
The first crack in the Iron Curtain appeared in May when Hungary decided to start opening its border with Austria. On August 19 the frontier was to be symbolically opened for a few hours for a Pan-European Picnic. More than East Germans holidaying in Hungary at the time took advantage and fled to the West. It was the first massive exodus since the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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