Hey history people! During the Cold War, Berlin was in East Germany (Soviet controlled) yet was split ...?

Question

During the Cold War, Berlin was in East Germany (Soviet controlled) yet was split between US and Soviet sectors. How was West Berlin kept out of Soviet control? since the US controlled West Berlin.

Answer 1

First of all, West Berlin was also controlled by Great Britain and France, not just the United States. The one way it stayed out of Soviet control goes back to 1948 when the Soviets blockaded Berlin. The Allies, mostly the United States, flew planes in with much needed supplies during this blockade. This helped to break the blockade a year later, as the Soviets realized that the West was going to control West Berlin. The Allies also built up their troops over the years. There was a highway and train route that went into the city from the West that was kept opened.

Answer 2

The Soviets made an agreement with the Western Allies after the war not to take over West Berlin. During The Cold War, NATO and the US maintained a military presence in West Berlin, while the Soviet Union maintained a large military presence in East Berlin; this did lead to tension between both sides, for both militaries could literally throw rocks and insults at each other. As for the Wall, the Soviets built that to attempt to (a) keep East Berliners from escaping to the west, and (b) to keep the US Army from invading East Berlin.

Answer 3

well some people dont know history very well

the berlin wall didnt come up till 61 nearly 20 years after the end of the war.

Soviets wanted all of germany. Did you know there were a lot of people that wanted to push the allied invasion all the way to Moscow to remove the Soviet Union and keep a Bloc in Europe

we knew Russia was going to turn eastern europe into a empire.

Look at events in the early days of Post World War II Berlin

i dont remember what year (think 1950) Moscow wanted West berlin so bad, they closed all roads to it from the west, and tthat forced NATO (or whatever it was at that time) to do the Berlin Airlift to get supplies to the citizens who were still living in ruins.

There were also incidents at check point charlie which is the most famous crossing spot in berlin, where Soviet tanks would sit across from US tanks as if just saying who's gonna fire first;

Berlin was like a giant buffer zone between NATO and the Soviet Union for 45 years.

Answer 4

After the end of World War II in Europe, what territorially remained of Nazi Germany was divided into four occupation zones (per the Potsdam Agreement), each one controlled by one of the four occupying Allied powers: the Americans, British, French and Soviets. The old capital of Berlin, as the seat of the Allied Control Council, was itself similarly subdivided into four zones despite the city itself lying deep inside the zone of the Soviet Union. Although the intent was for the occupying powers to govern Germany together inside the 1947 borders, the advent of Cold War tension caused the French, British and American zones to be formed into the Federal Republic of Germany (and West Berlin) in 1949, excluding the Soviet zone which then formed the German Democratic Republic (including East Berlin) the same year.

Answer 5

During the cold war, Berlin was in fact split.
The Russians controlled the eastern section, and the Americans, British, and French controlled west Berlin.
Even before the Berlin wall went up, the Russians tried to starve west Berlin by blockading the roads, train lines, and a threat to shoot down any allied planes that approached Berlin.

The blockade was broken by what was called the Berlin airlift.
The Russians were warned that any act of aggression on their part would be met with allied force,

They ultimately backed down, opened up the rail lines and roads, and it was at that point they (Russians) constructed the Berlin wall.

Answer 6

There were four powers involved. The Soviet Union, France, Britain and the USA. The sectors controlled by each power were agreed before the end of the war and respected because it was politically convenient for them although the Soviet Union did try a blockade at one time but the Berlin airlift overcame that.

Answer 7

Has it really been a generation since the wall came down? We have young people who don't remember it? There was a wall between the Western Zone and the Eastern Zone ,that was as porous as the American Border today, used to keep Eastern Germans from escaping to the West.

The Soviets permitted the existence of West Berlin because there were garrisons in each section, French, British and American, of the city that would have been used against the Soviets if they had attacked and fought until the American , British, French and German Governments had started blowing each other back to the Stone Age. I think that was good incentive to allow use to remain there don't you.

Answer 8

The division of Germany was discussed between war leaders at conferences during the war.

The division of Germany itself was based on military factors- stop lines were agreed for the opposing armies, on the river Elbe as it turned out.

But there was a separate need to have forces from all the major Allies occupy Berlin- this was basically to emphasise to Germans that they had been conquered and occupied by an alliance of nations. The 'stab in the back' theory of WW1 was not to be repeated, and it suited all the Allies to make it clear to German citizens that the whole world had crushed them.

So a separate arrangement and division of Berlin itself was made.

Answer 9

Both the Country (Germany) and its Capitol (Berlin) were split into four sectors each - US, USSR, England and France. People got into and out of the Western Sector of Berlin by using the airport (after the Commies built the Wall, of course.)

Answer 10

Just a side note, the BERLIN WALL WAS BUILT TO KEEP EAST GERMANS IN NOT TO KEEP OUT ANYONE!!

Now that that is over, the Soviets never moved to take it after the Berlin airlift, because they knew it would lead to war with NATO.