History 1945-1949 After the end of the second world war Germany was divided in 1945 the agreements of the Yalta Conference in accordance with the EAC-zone protocols respectively into four occupation zones, which controlled and should be managed by the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France allies. Analog, Berlin was divided into four sectors as the former imperial capital. In the summer of 1945, lines of demarcation between occupation zones, the so-called zone limits were drawn. Some were blow trees and white yellow wooden pillar erected and made color tags on trees. It was required a permit now to cross the zone boundary, a small border traffic has been introduced only for commuters and farmers. A border police was built on the orders of the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ), which was active for the first time on December 1, 1946, provisions for the use of the firearm. For travel between the Soviet and the Western zones, Interzonenpässe had to be applied for now. First border fortifications were erected on the East side, particularly in forest areas barbed wire obstacles to cross-border roads and roadblocks. Later, the cold war between the West and the so-called Eastern bloc developing began at various levels. First, a mutual exchange of blows between the Western allies and the Soviet Union followed in the confrontation of the cold war. The reparations were the first intractable disagreement, the joint still four allies came upon them in dispute. Because the USSR saw now that she could not cover their demand for reparations from their zone, she demanded a stake in reparations from the Ruhr area 1946/1947 Allied conferences, otherwise she could not one in the Potsdam Agreement agree planned economic unit. Only France did not accept this, the United States and the United Kingdom.[5][6] The London Conference of six power in February 1948, the Western powers about a separate State in Western of Germany for the first time occurred on negotiations, the Soviet Union was excluded, was not invited. Affiliated the Soviet Union withdrew in March from the Supreme authority of the allies in Germany, the Allied Control Council, which more there are no joint inter-Allied control over Germany. It followed in early June by the Western powers, after France gave up its opposition forming the Trizone from the three Western zones, and several days later the introduction of the Deutschmark (West) started West sectors from June 1948 in this new United zone and in the Berlin. The result in Germany was a first division of political and economic unity in two opposing areas with two different currencies. Even in greater Berlin was now a division into two currency areas. This created among other first problems when was living and work of the inhabitants of Berlin in relation to each other. Now, the Soviet Union responded with the Berlin blockade, which lasted from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 and resulted in the first Berlin. A further effect of the cold war was that Berlin evolved into a central area of mutual spying of the intelligence services from East and West.
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