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One of the most important impacts of the Second world war was the “division of Europe”, eastern and western.

  • UPSC 1998
  • The World after World War II

The Second World War destroyed the old European balance of power and left the continent's fate to be settled by the occupying armies of two extra-European superpowers, whose wartime cooperation curdled almost immediately into confrontation.

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  • Occupation Zones as the Origin of Division
  • Sovietization of the East and the Consolidation of the West
  • From Frontier to Wall: The Militarization of Division

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