East Germany
The official name of East Germany was the German Democratic Republic. It was a communist state aligned in the orbit of the Soviet Union.
The Allies of World War II divided Germany into four zones of control after the war -- each zone occupied by one of the Allied nations -- Britain, France, the USA, and the USSR. The same thing was done for the city of Berlin, which was in the Soviet-controlled zone (East Germany). East Berlin was governed under Soviet control, and West Berlin was governed by the western Allies -- Britain, France and the USA. The British, French and American sectors were combined into West Germany (and West Berlin), and the eastern area became "East Germany," a satellite of the Soviet Union.
Franklin sees as a definitive consequence of the inability to embrace the Albany design of union to forestall war. The Albany Plan of Union was an arrangement to put the British North American settlements under a more brought together government. Agents of the provincial governments received the Albany Plan amid a bigger meeting known as the Albany Congress.
