The Soviet Josef Stalin, seeking to consolidate communist rule in East Europe demanded the Western Allies withdraw from their occupation zones in Berlin. ... The death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Josef Stalin undermined the positions of many communist leaders in Eastern Europe and gave the peoples of East Europe hope that regimes would be liberalized. ...
Historian, Louis Halle, compared the situation with the animal behaviour: "If you put a scorpion and a tarantula (USA/USSR) together in a bottle (Europe) the object of their own self-preservation will impel them to fight each other to the death."4 The way for the political and economic division of Germany was cleared and it had already seemed to clear for Stalin, Attlee and Truman at the Potsdam Conference since the only thing they truly agreed on in this conference was the denazification.5 The division of Germany became official with the formation of two separate states in 1949: The Federal...
Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could've happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would've led him do such h...
