Cold War Germany Map
Modulelocation mapdatacold war germany is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of cold war germany.
Cold war germany map. This map attempts to show all border changes during the cold war period and beyond. During the cold war the fulda gap offered one of the two obvious routes for a hypothetical soviet tank attack on west germany from eastern europe especially from east germany. It culminated in the construction of the berlin wall in august 1961 and the solidifying of soviet and nato spheres of influence in europe. West germany was member of nato the western counterpart to the warsaw pact.
After the defeat of germany in world war ii the country was divided between the two global blocs in the east and west a period known as the division of germanygermany was stripped of its war gains and lost territories in the east to poland and the soviet union. At the end of the war there were some eight million foreign displaced persons in germany. The other route crossed the north german plain. Berlin crisis of 1961 cold war conflict between the soviet union and the united states concerning the status of the divided german city of berlin.
Mainly forced laborers and prisoners. Others reduced westberlin to an outlying suburb of berlin capital of the german democratic republic. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image. The section the division of germany shows that germany soon became a battleground of the cold war particularly with the imposition of a total blockade of the western sectors of berlin by the ussr the allied airlift and the division of the country into the federal republic of germany frg and the german democratic republic gdr.
The area of the occupation regime of the united states great britain and france respectively. To make sure that each countrys changing borders are shown only once the state of the borders at the end of each year 3112xxxx is used. East germany had its own army considered to be the most advanced among the warsaw pact countries given that it was at the cold war frontline. An east german map produced in 1960 labelled the eastern and western halves of the city democratic berlin and west berlin.
A start and end year. A third less likely route involved travelling up through the danube river valley through neutral austria. The changing boundaries of the international system are represented with a lifetime for each country ie. 1 background 1930s 1953 11 germanys age of expansion 12 the pacific war 13 fascist china 14 the structure of hitlers empire 2 the cold war begins 1953 1954 3 the suez wars 1955 1961 31 arab egypt conflict 32 the treaty of jerusalem 33 the second suez war 4 the ussr.