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Consider the United States' and the Soviet Union's plans for post-World War II Germany. How did they contrast?

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached we can say the following.

Considering the United States and the Soviet Union's plans for post-World War II Germany, we can say they contrast first of all, in that the US and the USSR had completely different ideologies that soon confronted and created what was known as the Cold War after World War II.

The United States firstly tried to implement the Morgenthau Plan, elaborated by US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. in 1944. The idea was to severely diminish Germany's military power to avoid another world war in the future, but the plan was later rejected.

The United States decided to support the reconstruction of Europe with the Marshall Plan and loaned millions of dollars to help reconstruction.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union wanted to maintain power and control over some Eastern European countries, included Germany. The USSR kept control of Berlin and East Germany, while the US kept the support of West Germany.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall, kept the satellite nations such as Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary, and instilled the ideology of Communism.

The United States reacted by implementing the policy of containment to avoid the spread of communism to other nations.

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