RAMIFICATIONS WORLD WAR II AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS ON GERMANY FROM 1945-1961

Abstract

After the collapse and defeat of Germany in World War II in 1945, it was stripped of its territorial gains and the German population was expelled. Germany was divided during the Cold War between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. In the Cold War, two separate German states emerged, the Federal Republic of Germany, which was founded on 23 May 1949 It was a parliamentary democracy with a liberal economic system and the German Democratic Republic, founded on October 7, 1949. East Germany suffered from a weak economy, as its economy was largely organized to meet the needs of the Union. The construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 ended the continuous flow of refugees to the West.