Germany

After losing their closest ally, Italy, in 1940, Germany knew that it was time for a change. After the war, Germany was one of the only countries that didn’t have massive devastation throughout the country. “A new constitution was drafted resulting in a political system relatively similar to that which preceded fascism and analogous to that of the French Fourth Republic.”1 This political system was much like the parliamentary system that many European states used during the 1920’s. Austria even claimed that

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”1 Many countries began showing their loyalty to western Germany to gain protection during the cold war. They used this power to try to gain independence of Croatia and Slovenia in 1974. After Germany was divided into two parts, East Germany built the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west.

One major change after this was the call for a demilitarized Germany in the East. 3, 1990, political reunification took place under what had been the West German constitution. This was originally an ancient Croatian city that became the focal point for ethnic cleansing. France entered a the France-German Treaty of Friendship in 1963. This led to the displacement of half-a-million Croats and 230,000 Serbs. The differences between the two sides became even more apparent after the construction of the Berlin wall. The West wanted to revive the German economy and combine the three western zones into one area. Germany tried to keep this city for Croatia, but in November of 1975 the Vukovar was destroyed. Soviet Union feared this union because it gave the one combined zone more power than its zone. “Post-war adjustments were made more complex by wide-spread “ethnic cleansing,” where millions of Germans were expelled from other European states. The wall physically divided the country into eastern communism and western democracy. Austria also returned to the parliamentary system.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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