Cold War Research for Deutschland 83

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The Cold War 

 It started in 1945 just after WW2 ended and lasted for about 45 years. During WW2, tensions between the USA and the USSR were growing as Stalin and Truman worked with Churchill to defeat the Nazi's, and then decide how they were going to deal with the defeated Germany at the Potsdam conference. This didn't go well though as the USA and USSR disagreed on how Germany should be dealt with, due to the fact that The USA was Capitalist and the USSR was Communist. Because of this and other reasons, such as Truman hiding the fact that America had developed an Atomic bomb from Stalin, tensions were great between the two nations.

 When Germany was finally agreed to be split between 4 zones, one for France, Britain, the USA and the USSR, the Soviets tried to make their zone communist, whilst the other allies said that this was wrong and thought it should be Capitalist/democratic.
This meant that the Soviets faced a lot of opposition from their former allies, and as the USSR was trying to expand their Communist conquests, they decided to split Berlin into East (to the USSR) and West (to the USA etc.) which resulted in the famous Berlin Wall

 The Cold War also resulted in high tensions due to the threats of the use of the Nuclear missiles that the USA and USSR said they were going to use on each other. This made people's everyday lives more dangerous but also more uncertain. 

 Because East Germany was inland, they did not have the access to imports that West Germany had. This resulted in different produce being available in one and not in the other.

 The East was also largely communist as the USSR had control over it, whilst the West was Capitalist. This meant that people would have been generally poorer in the East as wealth is shared equally in communist states, whilst the West would have been quite prosperous. Also, the East would have been under a dictatorship whilst the West would have been democratic.
Able Archer 83-

 Able Archer 83 is the codename for a command post exercise carried out in November 1983 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

 The purpose of the exercise was to simulate a period of conflict escalation, culminating in the US military attaining simulated DEFCON 1 coordinated nuclear attack.

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