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  German reunification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is debate as to whether the events of 1990 should be properly referred to as a "reunification" or a "unification." Proponents of the former use the term in contrast with the initial unification of Germany in 1871.
Another proposal by Stalin involved the reunification of Germany within the borders of December 31, 1937 under the condition that Germany joined the Warsaw Pact (Eastern Bloc).
Due to Soviet objections to East Germany being absorbed into the NATO alliance, an agreement was reached which allowed a reunified Germany to remain a part of NATO on the condition that NATO troops were not to be stationed in East German territory.
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 Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, whose unexpectedly high demands were perceived as humiliating in Germany, as a continuation of the war by other means and a breaking of traditional post-war diplomacy that included negotiations between the victors and vanquished.
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East.
The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m / 9,718 ft) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (Nordsee) in the north-west and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the north-east.
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 Germany - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, whose unexpectedly high demands were perceived as humiliating in Germany and as a continuation of the war by other means.
Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, American in the south, and Soviet in the east.
The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south to the shores of the North Sea in the north-west and the Baltic Sea in the north-east.
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 Germany History
Germany's defeat in that war was so complete, however, and the terms of its surrender so humiliating that the seeds were sown for an even greater catastrophe, the Second World War.
Germany itself was devastated and with the end of the war, it virtually ceased to exist as a political entity.
The reunification of Germany took place in 1990 and though the initial euphoria has dimmed, Germany continues to work on solving its problems (particularly the economic ones associated with having had to absorb a stagnant East Germany into the booming West).
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 Germany since reunification
The reunification of Germany on October 3 1990 has undoubtedly signalled one of the most significant changes in the political geography of Europe in the second half of the 20th century.
To understand the force of the drive for reunification in Germany, it is necessary to explain, briefly, how the modern state of Germany emerged and how the FRG relates to the other German states that have existed in the course of this century.
In this article "reunification" has been used quite intentionally, because the new Germany is clearly an extension of the FRG as originally constituted, and FRG itself claims to be an evolution from the Deutsche Reich of 1871.
www.intellectbooks.com /europa/number3/blacksel.htm   (4030 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east.
In 1999, electricity production in Germany was made up by coal (47%), nuclear power (30%), natural gas (14%), renewable sources (including hydro) (6%), and oil (2%) (climate protection as a key policy issue, announced a carbon dioxide reduction target by the year 2005 compared to 1990 by 25% ([3], pdf).
Germany's influence on world philosophy was major as well, as exemplified by Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Germany   (6784 words)

  
 Germany reunification must consider territorial concerns
A united Germany will be accepted by the rest of the world if it respects current borders and remains in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance.
This history makes all of Germany's neighbors nervous, especially the Poles who have had their boundaries determined more by politics than by aspirations of the citizens.
Germany's borders remain unsettled with Austria, France, Denmark, and Czechoslovakia as well as Poland.
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 Germany's Reunification Woes
The second reason for Germany's recession and its severity is the further advance of the social-welfare state.
Germany's constitution restricts the use of its military in the defense of NATO'S territory, so Kohl's willingness to participate in peacekeeping missions is always threatened by injunctions from Germany's constitutional court (requested by the opposition), as long as the constitution remains unchanged.
Germany has turned from a capital exporter to a capital importer, from a country with a need to import workers to a country with structural unemployment, and from a country with a conservative fiscal policy to a country with soaring budget deficits.
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 East & West Germany Move Toward Reunification
The move caused Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to soften his stance on the reunification of Germany.
Earlier, the Kremlin had sought membership in Both NATO and the Warsaw pact for the reunification of Germany.
Gorbachev also suggested that a united Germany could be a member of NATO if the western alliance changed its Cold War position against the Soviet Union.
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 Germany Ten Years of Reunification
The leaders of the left-wing parties not only (justly) warned of possible economic problems related to reunification, some of them still dreamt a dangerous dream of two neutral Germanys in the middle of Europe.
Others had illusions about a second, "better" Germany on the territory of the GDR, a "socialist-democratic state", not realizing that socialism and democracy are incompatible.
East Germany, considered the economically most vital country of the Eastern block, made the impression of a war zone on me. Though I have to admit, if you had asked me in mid-1989 whether the end of communism was imminent, I would have been very sceptical.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo10/tenyears.htm   (1292 words)

  
 The Reunification of Germany
The most extreme of these measures was the erection in 1961 of the Berlin Wall to check the sustained movement of East Germans to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany), whose booming economy had created millions of new jobs.
Nearly three decades later, for a period of several years beginning in the summer of 1989, the appeal of West Germany, even with its economy mired in recession, prompted another wave of migration of more than 700,000 East Germans, most between the ages of eighteen and thirty.
By mid-1995 it appeared that the physical and administrative mergers of the two German states would be far easier to accomplish than the social aspect of the union.
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 German Reunification: Ten Years Together
From 1949 Germany stopped being a great united power created by Bismarck, but transformed into two different countries with different aims and ways of life - West Germany (FRG) with its capital in Bonn, and East Germany (GDR) with the capital in East Berlin.
As most East Germans had relatives and friends in the western part, they saw the striking difference in the streets, in the stores, in the houses, and it was natural that they also wanted to live like their well-to-do relatives.
According to the statistics, the length of the border between West Germany and East Germany was 166 km, and the Wall stood along this border with the full length of 107 km.
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 State and nation: Germany since reunification Mark Blacksell
However, until 1989, though widely desired and much discussed in the course of the preceding four decades, reunification had apparently become a distant and ever dimmer prospect, despite a continuing ritual adherence to it on the part of all the major political parties in the FRG.
First of all, it is crucial to stress the obvious point that this is a new Germany, and the latest in a line of 'new Germanies' that have come and gone in the course of the 20th century (Figure 1).
This was, first, because reunification had removed the necessity for the Basic Treaty to make provisionfor further Lander to join the federation; and, second, to take account of the provisions on European unity in the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty).
www.intellectbooks.com /nation/html/germany.htm   (3956 words)

  
 reunification of germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
An agreement was reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany on February 13, 1990 and the plan...
Oder on the present-day border between Poland and Germany, reaching from River Reknitz in the west to...
In 1939 Nazi Germany proposed to shift Poland's borders to the East.
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 LaRouche Famous Kempinski Speech
West and East Germany were officially unified as a single nation in 1990, and Berlin became the capital.
In other words, is a united Germany to become part of a Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, as President de Gaulle proposed, or, as Mr.
If Germany agrees to this, let a process aimed at the reunification of the economies of Germany begin, and let this be the punctum saliens for Western cooperation in assisting the rebuilding of the economy of Poland.
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 Reunification of Germany predicted; war will break out in the western part of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Our Lady of the Roses words concerning Germany contain two prophecies: war breaking out in western Germany, and the reunification of Germany.
Reunification of Germany predicted; war will break out in the western part of Germany...
NATO was plunged into its deepest crisis for decades Monday after France, Germany and Belgium vetoed a U.S. request to provide military assistance to Turkey in the event of an attack by neighboring Iraq.
www.tldm.org /news6/germany.htm   (1142 words)

  
 Foreign Affairs - The German Question - Christoph Bertram
For all their historic worth, these certainties, in turn, create new uncertainties-after all, the postwar system of European stability, of deterrence and détente, was based on the permanence of the Soviet threat and of the division of Europe and of Germany.
Germany is at the center of all these uncertainties, not only geographically but politically.
Europe, and Germany, have been divided for the past four decades because of Soviet insistence that the security of the U.S.S.R. called not only for the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union but also for ideological integrity in a communist system of states.
www.foreignaffairs.org /19900301faessay6014/christoph-bertram/the-german-question.html   (631 words)

  
 The Cold War Museum - Reunification of Germany
A strong drive for reunification developed in East and West Germany in 1990.
In East Germany, conservative parties supporting reunification won the elections, and the new government and the force of events proceeded to dismantle the state.
The economy of the East largely collapsed, and the costs of reunification and the privatization of state-owned businesses in the East pushed Germany into recession and led to increased social tensions.
www.coldwar.org /articles/90s/reunification_of_germany.asp   (134 words)

  
 Germany HQ : German Reunification
Discusses the division of Germany, theMarshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin Crisis, the Berlin Airlift,...
Tom Heneghan's first-hand account of reunited Germany, from the fall of the Wallto the government's move to Berlin.
Germany HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
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 Reunification Of Germany - Live Germany's Best Reunification Of Germany Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thirty-two years since the football festival of 1974 and for the first time since German reunification, Germany is hosting this major sporting event, which along with the Olympic Games is one of the...
But," she says, despite a troubled reunification, "Germany is a very educated, diverse and politically healthy country now, with a great crowd of young people.
The reunification of Germany took place in 1990 with the Basic Law being applied as the national constitution.
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 NATO Basic Documents: Paris Agreements, 23 October 1954
Since these Annexes can only be understood in the light of the Conventions signed in Bonn in 1952, they have been replaced in the present work by a brief recapitulation of the Conventions and a summary of the amendments made to them.
Article II lays down that the Three Powers retain their rights "relating to Berlin and to Germany as a whole, including the reunification of Germany and a peace settlement".
Under the new arrangements, allied troops will remain in Germany as at present "pending the entry into force of the arrangements for the German defence contribution" and, after that, remain with the consent of the Federal Government.
www.nato.int /docu/basictxt/b541023c.htm   (713 words)

  
 Unifying German History
Germany: two histories reunited - Reunification and Education.
The Value of Reunification in Germany - Page with a paper about the value of the Reunification of Germany and links to other papers.
Changes in mathematics education through the reunification of Germany - Page with information on how the Reunification has changed education.
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 Major economic change can lead to an increase in deaths in car accidents
Based on the experiences of the reunification of Germany, researchers in this week's BMJ warn that during times of economic change and modernisation, deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents are a predictable side-effect of the sudden affluence which increases car ownership.
After reunification, which caused a sudden, temporary affluence there was an associated four-fold increase in car accident fatalities between 1989-91.
The authors conclude that a tragic consequence of the reunification of Germany was the dramatic increase in death rates of car occupants.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-06/BMJ-Mecc-180699.php   (391 words)

  
 The carnage wrought by major economic change: ecological study of traffic related mortality and the reunification of ...
German reunification was associated with a fourfold increase in death rates for car occupants in former East Germany between 1989 and 1991, young adults having an 11-fold increase
The death rate for occupants of cars in East Germany rose from 4 per 100 000 population in 1989 to 16 per 100 000 in 1991.
After reunification many East Germans bought cars, as shown by a 41% increase in the number of cars from 1989 to 1991.
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 REUNIFICATION : tous les sites sur le thème reunification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Helping bring children back to school, providing immunization services, and assisting with registration, placement and reunification of the separated are but a few of the activities UNICEF undertook in the past 12 months.
The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, collapse of the Soviet Union, and reunification of Germany brought changes for the military.
Family reunification, even when a marriage had occurred prior to migration, was not widely permitted until after the Second World War.
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 International perspective: reunification in Germany - its economic and financial implications. | Finance from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
International perspective: reunification in Germany - its economic and financial implications.
West Germany will pay a huge price for reunification by subsidizing the social security system in East Germany, by supporting and financing investments in the presently extremely poor infrastructure in the GDR and by offering attractive fiscal incentives to au who are ready to make direct investments in the GDR.
But the interim government in East Germany felt it had no political mandate for such wide-ranging decisions, and finally there seemed to be no alternative to offering the GDR the fast realization of economic, social and monetary union.
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 Albion Road: A Soccer Club Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The bottom 3 clubs are relegated, to be replaced by the top three teams from the second tier (2.
I have used cup and title information from pre-war Germany, West Germany and post-reunification Germany.
The Bundesliga has only been in existence since 1963, previously there were regional tournaments leading to a national final.
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