Germany__Friend_Or_Foe

Germany: Friend Or Foe Germany is Europe’s largest economy and most populous nation; it remains a key member of the continent’s economic, political, and defense organization. European power struggles absorbed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the beginning of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949, West and East Germany. West Germany (democratic) surrounded itself in key western economic and security organizations, the European Union and NATO. While East Germany (communist) was on the front line of the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War allowed for Germany to unify in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other European Union introduced a common European exchange currency called the Euro. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the important issues in Germany focusing on the type of government, economy, military, and germany, united, states, forces, federal, armed, german, union, european, economy, war, minister, military, europe, two, general, defense, state, nato, economic, years, world, west, since, relations, prime, operational, key, government, court, bundestag, been, structure, staff, soviet