The countries in eastern Europe, having already suffered from German occupation, which came under Communist
control after the Second World War, experienced the same hostility to religious life.
Not exact matches
The division of Germany immediately
after the
Second World War into two countries, East Germany, under Communist
control, and West Germany, which was democratic, weakened the rebuilding of the churches, although several kept pan-German structures.
The officials said Britain had cut the size of the national debt as a percentage of GDP
after the
second world war, but mainly through
controls on bank lending and inflation eroding the value of the debt.
Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements — the accords
after the
Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international financial system — America's trading partners have been left to cope with the impact of Washington's
control and, in more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.