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Background: As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed 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 US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification 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 EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.




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19 weeks ago: onthegogirl published a blog
ON BOARD THE EURODAM
August 3rd 2009  Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock
8/1 Awoke early and wrote my blog and enjoyed a breakfast buffet before leaving for the port. The Eurodam is the newest and largest vessel in the fleet. I was checked in and on board by 11:45 an ... [full story]

25 weeks ago: CaroTobi published a blog
Testeintrag
June 19th 2009  Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock
Test...ich frag morgen, ob ihr die e-mail bekommen habt;) oder sagt bescheid. ... [full story]


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