The dividing line between the Soviets and US/allies.
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Germany was sandwiched between the USSR and the western allies.
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt decided on the postwar division of Europe at the Yalta Conference. For that reason, American forces ended their advance at the Elba River, leaving Russia to take Berlin. In essence, this gave Russia control of East Germany which fell in the Soviet sphere, and the Western Allies (Britain, France, and the US) divided West Germany.
After initial advances by Germany on the western front, the war stalled as trench warfare created powerful defensive positions on each side,
The Phony War was a period where there was no conflict between the western allies (Britain and France) and Germany.
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