Cold war divided germany map. The cold war divided germany between the allies in the west and soviets in the east. Germans had little voice in government until 1949 when two states emerged. To view map at full size click here. Berlins troubled post world war ii history led to a fascinating dual history for transit in that city divided into east and west sectors.
Following the potsdam conference in august 1945 the country was formally split into american british french and soviet zones of occupation. At the end of the second world war germany was occupied by the victorious allied forces. This west berlin u bahn map from 1977 at the height of the cold war shows that division in a stark but also curiously understated fashion. The section the division of germany shows that germany soon became a battleground of the cold war particularly with the imposition of a total blockade of the western sectors of berlin by the ussr the allied airlift and the division of the country into the federal republic of germany frg and the german democratic republic gdr.
This chapter discusses the specific example of maps of divided cold war germany in news journals. The former capital berlin was similarly divided. The federal republic of germany west germany was a parliamentary democracy with a capitalist economic system and free churches and labour unions.
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