The influence of religion was being removed from schools
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USA suspends reparations to the USSR in retalation for the Russian's refusal to deliver foodstuffs.
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Bizonia created: this was the joining of the UK and USA sectors of Germany. The two countries saw the need to recover a poverty stricken Germany, but also gang up on the USSR.
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Berlin elections held, SED recieved 20% of the vote
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Huge amounts of unemployment. Population: 19 million
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Marshall Aid: America offers financial aid to Europe. The USSR did not attend the Paris conferenc ein which it was discussed. This essentially divided Europe into two.
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The Deutschmark and Ostmark are introduced. This marked a greater divison between the two states.
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Trizonia created: now France also merged its sector
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Berlin Crisis: The USSR cut off all electricity supplies to West Berlin, as well as any canal routes to the Western Zones. The Western powers responded with the Berlin Airlift.