HOW DID THE COLD WAR CONFLICT AFFECT GERMANY AFTER 1945?

1.1.4 The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states, lasting from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. It was characterized by an arms race, proxy wars, and ideological conflict, but without direct large-scale military conflict between the two superpowers.