Abstract

The U.S. and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as the world’s superpowers. The vast majority of Germans in the American occupation zone assumed that the U.S., which possessed the atomic bomb, would exert the greatest influence in the world in the coming ten years. But 10%, by contrast, predicted that the Soviet Union would be the dominant power.

OMGUS Survey on the Influence of the United States and the Soviet Union (1946–49)

Source

Source: A. J. and R. L. Merritt, Public Opinion in Occupied Germany. The OMGUS Surveys. Urbana, IL, 1970, p. 54.

Recommended Citation

OMGUS Survey on the Influence of the United States and the Soviet Union (1946–49), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/occupation-and-the-emergence-of-two-states-1945-1961/ghdi:document-3901> [December 21, 2024].