8 Corpus Christi Nueces 325,733 Houston Texas Business Directory Germany had been de facto divided and two independent states the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were created within the borders of Allied and Soviet occupation zones the rest of Europe was also divided into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Most eastern and central European countries fell into the Soviet sphere which led to establishment of Communist-led regimes with full or partial support of the Soviet occupation authorities As a result East Germany Poland Hungary Romania Czechoslovakia and Albania became Soviet satellite states Communist Yugoslavia conducted a fully independent policy causing tension with the Soviet Union. Houston Texas Business Directory 1860 604,215 184.2% Houston received the official nickname of "Space City" in 1967 because it is the location of NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center Other nicknames often used by locals include "Bayou City" "Clutch City" "Crush City" "Magnolia City" "H-Town" and "Culinary Capital of the South".[citation needed].
By October Axis operational objectives in Ukraine and the Baltic region were achieved with only the sieges of Leningrad and Sevastopol continuing a major offensive against Moscow was renewed; after two months of fierce battles in increasingly harsh weather the German army almost reached the outer suburbs of Moscow where the exhausted troops were forced to suspend their offensive. Large territorial gains were made by Axis forces but their campaign had failed to achieve its main objectives: two key cities remained in Soviet hands the Soviet capability to resist was not broken and the Soviet Union retained a considerable part of its military potential the blitzkrieg phase of the war in Europe had ended. 1.6 Hurricane Katrina Bronze figure of a Portuguese soldier made by Benin culture in West Africa around 1600 The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths a quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed. Germany sustained 5.3 million military losses mostly on the Eastern Front and during the final battles in Germany.
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