Using complete sentences, explain how germany was partitioned following world war ii.

With the end of World War II, the main winners - England, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union - occupied defeated Germany.

The first three countries had the same political-economic alignment, that is, capitalism. Thus they created the “tripartite” zone, which did not please Stalin, as it threatened the territory occupied by the USSR.

In 1948 Stalin decreed the "Berlin Blockade", a "peaceful" siege that prevented supplies from reaching Germany and land and rivers.

The response from the United States and England was to use airplanes to secure the city's supply and transport of people.

The siege was interrupted on May 13, 1949, and the Allies remained in Berlin. Likewise, on the 23rd of the same month, they created the German Federal Republic, preventing Stalin from taking over all German territory.

For its part, the USSR decrees the creation of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) on October 7, 1949.

If Germany suffered as a whole with this division, for the city Berlin was worse. The former capital was in full Soviet-occupied territory and was cut - literally - in two.