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East Germany , formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR , was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period . From ___MASK4___ to 1990 , it administered the region of Germany that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II  the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement , bounded on the east by the Oder  Neisse line . The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin , but did not include it ; as a result , West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR . The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet Zone , while the Federal Republic was established in the three western zones . East Germany was a satellite state of the Soviet Union . Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 , and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 ___MASK17___ . Soviet forces , however , remained in the country throughout the Cold War . Until 1989 , the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ), though other parties nominally participated in its alliance organisation , the National Front of Democratic Germany . West Berlin was a city that existed in the period between the end of the Berlin Blockade on ___MASK51___ May ___MASK4___ to German reunification on 3 October 1990 as a political enclave surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany . It was east of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors . It consisted of the American , British , and French occupation sectors established in ___MASK68___ and shared economic , political , legal , and sporting systems with West Germany , but was not " de jure " part of it . It had a special and unique legal status because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies . East Berlin , " de jure " occupied and administered by the Soviet Union , was the " de facto " capital of East Germany . The Berlin Wall , built in 1961 , physically divided East and West Berlin until it fell in 1989 . The ___MASK41___ Summer Olympic Games ( Spanish : " Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de ___MASK41___ "; Catalan : " Jocs Olímpics d ' estiu de ___MASK41___ "), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad , was an international multi - sport event played in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain in ___MASK41___ . Beginning in 1994 , the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games in alternating even - numbered years ; as a result , the ___MASK41___ Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics . The games were the first to be unaffected by boycotts since 1972 . The Soviet Occupation Zone (" Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii ", " Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany ") was the area of central Germany occupied by the Soviet Union from ___MASK68___ on , at the end of World War II . On 7 October 1949 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ), which became commonly referred to as East Germany , was established in the Soviet Occupation Zone . The Oder  Neisse line is the international border between Germany and Poland . It was drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of the Second World War and is primarily delineated along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers in Central Europe , meeting the Baltic Sea to the north , just west of the Polish seaports of Szczecin and winoujcie ( German : " Stettin " and " Swinemünde "). All prewar German territory east of the line and within the ___MASK81___ German boundaries ( ___MASK29___ . 8 % of the former Weimar Republic ) were placed under International Law Administrative status , with most of it being made part of newly - Communist Poland . The small remainder , consisting of the territory surrounding the German city of Königsberg ( now renamed Kaliningrad , in honour of Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin ) in northern East Prussia , was allocated to the Soviet Union ( as Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR , today the Russian Federation ) after the war ( pending the final World War II peace treaty for Germany ). The vast majority of the native German population in these territories fled , or was killed or expelled by force . The Oder  Neisse line marked the border between the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) and Poland from ___MASK24___ to 1990 . East Germany confirmed the border with Poland in ___MASK24___ , while West Germany , after a period of refusal , finally accepted the border ( with reservations ) in 1970 . In 1990 the newly reunified Germany and the Republic of Poland signed a treaty recognizing it as their border . The ___MASK10___ Summer Olympics , officially known as the , was an international multi - sport event held in Tokyo , Japan , from October ___MASK56___ to 24 , ___MASK10___ . Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the ___MASK69___ Summer Olympics , but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan ' s invasion of China , before ultimately being canceled because of World War II . Bernd Dittert ( born ___MASK74___ ) is a retired racing cyclist from East Germany , who won the bronze medal for his native country in the men ' s 4 , 000m individual pursuit at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea . Four years later he won the gold medal in the men ' s team time trial ( road ), alongside Michael Rich , Christian Meyer and Uwe Peschel . Bernd Dittert ( born February ___MASK30___ , 1961 in Genthin ) is a retired racing cyclist from East Germany , who won the bronze medal for his native country in the men ' s 4 , 000m individual pursuit at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea . Four years later he captured the gold medal in the men ' s team time trial ( road ) , alongside Michael Rich , Christian Meyer and Uwe Peschel . The ___MASK2___ Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad , were an international multi - sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 ___MASK28___ in Seoul , South Korea . They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo , Japan . Seoul (  )  officially the Seoul Special City  is the capital and largest metropolis of the Republic of Korea ( commonly known as South Korea ), forming the heart of the Seoul Capital Area , which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province , the world ' s 16th largest city . It is home to over half of all South Koreans along with ___MASK85___ , 102 international residents . The Potsdam Agreement was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II , United Kingdom , United States , Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , for the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany  referring to the German Reich with its pre - war ___MASK81___ borders including the former eastern territories  and the entire European theatre of War territory . It also included Germany ' s demilitarisation , reparations and the prosecution of war criminals . Uwe Peschel ( born ___MASK95___ November 1968 ) is a former German professional road bicycle racer and a time trialist . At the 1992 Summer Olympics , Peschel along with Bernd Dittert , Christian Meyer and Michael Rich , won the gold medal in the Men ' s Team Time Trial . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from ___MASK33___ to ___MASK68___ , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history . The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from ___MASK22___ to ___MASK93___ . A union of multiple subnational republics , its government and economy were highly centralized . The Soviet Union was a one - party federation , governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital . The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between ___MASK44___ , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and ___MASK93___ , the year the Soviet Union collapsed .