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It was a group of several European countries that were formed for political , military , economical reasons . Main goal was to protect the soviet military interests . The countries involved were, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania,, Yugoslavia , Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. -
They divided Germany because soviet leader wanted Germany divided so it could not rise to power again. Germany was divided into four areas. Great Britain was in the north , France in the southwest , the united states in the south and soviet union in the east . -
It was a us sponsored idea to rehabilite the economic balance of the 17 western and southern countries. So that they could survive decently after the tragedy of world war 2. -
It was one of the first international crisis of the cold war . The soviet union cut off all land and river transit between west berlin and west Germany . The western allies responded with a massive airlift to go to west berlins aid.