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SUPERPOWER RELATIONS 1945-90

11a) Europe after 1945.

i) Give 1 reason to explain why the Soviet Union wished to control Eastern Europe after 1945. (3)

The Soviet Union wanted to control Eastern Europe after 1945 because it wanted to set up buffer states (a state that sits in between two rival powers much like Poland was between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939) to protect herself from any enemies that threatened invasion.

ii) In what ways did the Allied powers deal with Germany at the Potsdam conference (1945)? (5)

At the Potsdam conference there were some vague agreements in relation as to how the allies dealt with Germany at the Potsdam conference in 1945. For example, it was agreed that more than 6million Germans in Eastern Europe should be resettled in Germany. For reparations, (in keeping with the idea of splitting Germany into four zones under control of Britain, France, Russia and USA, and Berlin also into 4) each of the Allies could take what they wanted from their zone of Germany. It was also decided that there should be de-nazification of Germany (eradicating any presence of Nazi rule) through holding trials