The Four Occupational Zones
At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the four ‘occupational zones’ of which Nazi-Germany would be split into were decided upon. The Allies agreed that Germany was to be democratized and de-Nazified, the Soviet Union contravened this agreement and established an elected communist puppet state in its allocated zone. Consequentially, this made the U.S. distrustful of the USSR and its intentions. The Soviet Union was also suspicious of the U.S. and in turn established an ‘Eastern Bloc’ or as Winston Churchill referred to it, an ‘iron curtain’, which was essentially a political, military and ideological barrier comprising of communist puppet states erected by the USSR in an attempt to seal itself and its eastern European allies off from open