Write a paragraph that analyzes how Paul Janeczko introduces a topic and engages the reader in Chapter 5 of The Dark Game. It won't let me put the article because of " inappropriate language"
When World War II ended in Europe in 1945, the victorious Allies, as part of the peace treaty, divided Germany into four parts—one each for the United States, England, France, and Russia. The Soviet Union gained control of the eastern part of the country, while the other three Allied nations controlled the western part. (Eventually these sections became East Germany and West Germany, respectively.)
This division of the country was also duplicated in the capital city of Berlin, with the Allied section in the western part of the city and the Soviet section in the east.
But Berlin was deep in the Soviet section of Germany. Although the Russians agreed to the division of Berlin in 1944, they refused to assure that the Americans, French, and British would be allowed to enter the city. Tension between the two sides escalated until June 1948, when the Soviets blocked all western access to the capital.
In this first real crisis of the Cold War, the West was not going to be denied by the Soviets. Since such tension was typical in the divided city, it should come as no surprise that Berlin in the early 1950s was a city of intrigue, espionage, and danger.
An uneasy peace prevailed between the Russians and the other Allies, but each side was suspicious of the other. The United States wanted desperately to know what the Soviets were thinking. The big fear for the U. S. was that the Soviets would attack West Germany without warning, or in diplomatic language, with "a cold start. "
The U. S. knew that the Soviets possessed nuclear weapons. Would they use them on the West? This question and others would need to be answered by U. S. intelligence agents.