Buffer Zones and Satellite States
- Friendly states that separate hostile nations
- North Korea between China and Russia
- Eastern Bloc countries between russia and west Europe
- Satellite states for russia include Poland, Hungary, Romania etc.
The Division of Germany and Berlin
- Potsdam confrence had decided the division of Germany
- Divided into 4 occupation zones under control of Allied Control Council
- 1947 US and GB join in their zones. (France joins in 1948 to from west Germany)(set 1949)(Federal republic of Germany led by Konrad Adenhauer)
- Stalin forms East Germany with his zone the same year
"An Iron curtain has descended upon europe"
-Churchill
Fun Fact
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the phrase satellite state in English back at least as far as 1916.
Subjunctive Question
Without these buffer zones would the cold war have turned more into a real war?
Summary
The friendly states that served as a border in-between communist countries and democratic countries were known as buffer zones and satellite states. They were called buffer zones because they served the purpose of keeping the two sides away from each other.