As a result of world war ii, germany was 

As of 1945, only a part of Germany received a second democratic opportunity: the western one.

On February 4 and 11, 1945: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in the city of Yalta (Crimea). The victors divided the German territory into four zones of occupation: the eastern one was controlled by the USSR, and the western one by France, Great Britain and the United States.

The city of Berlin, located within the zone of Soviet occupation, reproduced the same division scheme.

it further strained relations between the north and the south and convinced

the answer should be monarchy