What type of Government was Germany after World War Two?

Question

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Answer 1

The American, British and French military occupation zones were reunited as the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, 23 May 1949), a constitutional democratic republic with Bonn as its capital, while the Russian military occupation zone became the German Democratic Republic (DDR, 7 October 1949), a communist-led "people's democracy" with East-Berlin as its capital.

Answer 2

Immediately after the end of the military governments were set up by the allies under the auspices of the Allied Control Commission. Each zone was controlled by their respective armies; French, Russian, USA and Great Britain. Each zone had representatives from each other occupier to observe and protect their interests. These occupation governments provided rations, civil and criminal courts and police forces.
The occupation governments ended in the mid-nineteen fifties. During this period two German states were created the Federal Republic of Germany(BRD) in the west was a western parliamentary Democracy. The eastern became the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was was communist and authoritarian.

Answer 3

The end of the war hastened the independence of many British crown colonies (such as India) and Dutch territories (such as Indonesia) and the formation of new nations and alliances throughout Asia and Africa. The Philippines were granted their independence in 1946 as previously promised by the United States. France attempted and failed to regain control of its colonies in Indochina.

Poland's boundaries were re-drawn to include portions of pre-war Germany, including East Prussia and Upper Silesia, while ceding most of the areas taken by the Soviet Union in the Molotov-Ribbentrop partition of 1939, effectively moving Poland to the west. Germany was split into four zones of occupation, and the three zones under the Western Allies was reconstituted as a constitutional democracy. The Soviet Union's influence increased as they, with the tacit approval of the West, established hegemony over most of eastern Europe and incorporated parts of Finland and Poland into their new boundaries. This appeasement of Stalin by the West became known as the Western betrayal among the Soviet-dominated countries. Europe was informally split into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, which heightened existing tensions between the two camps and helped establish the Cold War.

To prevent (or at least minimize) future conflicts, the allied nations, led by the United States, formed the United Nations in San Francisco, California in 1945. One of the first actions of the United Nations was the creation of the State of Israel, partly in response to the Holocaust.

In 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall devised the "European Recovery Program", better known as the Marshall Plan. Effective from 1948 to 1952, it allocated 13 billion dollars for the reconstruction of Western Europe. Of Germany's four zones of occupation, coordinated by the Allied Control Council, the American, British, and French zones joined in 1949 as the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic. In Germany, economic suppression and denazification took place. Millions of Germans and Poles were expelled from their homelands as a result of the territorial annexations in Eastern Europe agreed upon at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. In the West, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, and the Saar area was separated from Germany. Austria was divided into four zones of occupation, which were united in 1955 to become the Republic of Austria. The Soviet Union occupied much of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In all the USSR-occupied countries, with the exception of Austria, the Soviet Union helped Communist regimes to power. It also annexed the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Military governors
May 22, 1945 - April 30, 1946 Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
May 1, 1946 - October 31, 1947 William Sholto Douglas
November 1, 1947 - September 21, 1949 Sir Brian Hubert Robertson

[edit] High commissioners
September 21, 1949 - June 24, 1950 Sir Brian Hubert Robertson
June 24, 1950 - September 29, 1953 Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
September 29, 1953 - May 5, 1955 Sir Frederick Hoyer-Millar

[edit] French Zone

[edit] Military commander
May 1945 - July 1945 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

[edit] Military governor
July 1945 - September 21, 1949 Marie-Pierre Koenig

[edit] High commissioner
September 21, 1949 - May 5, 1955 André François-Poncet

[edit] Soviet Zone

[edit] Military commander
April 1945 - June 9, 1945 Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

[edit] Military governors
June 9, 1945 - April 10, 1946 Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
April 10, 1946 - March 29, 1949 Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky
March 29, 1949 - October 10, 1949 Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov

[edit] Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission
October 10, 1949 - May 28, 1953 Vasily Ivanoivich Chuikov

[edit] High commissioners
May 28, 1953 - July 16, 1954 Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov
July 16, 1954 - September 20, 1955 Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin

[edit] United States Zone

[edit] Military governors
May 8, 1945 - November 10, 1945: Dwight David Eisenhower
November 11, 1945 - November 25, 1945 George S. Patton, Jr. (acting)
November 26, 1945 - January 5, 1947 Joseph T. McNarney
January 6, 1947 - May 14, 1949 Lucius DuBignon Clay
May 15, 1949 - September 1, 1949 Clarence R. Huebner (acting)

[edit] High commissioners
September 2, 1949 - August 1, 1952 John J. McCloy
August 1, 1952 - December 11, 1952 Walter J. Donnelly
December 11, 1952 - February 10, 1953 Samuel Reber (acting)
February 10, 1953 - May 5, 1955 James B. Conant