Terms in this set (5) East German government announced that East Germans could now travel to West Germany. Germany reunification: East Germny ceased to exist, The Soviet Union withdrew its troops from what was East Germany, British, French and US troops remained in Western Germany.

• The Berlin Wall fell 31 years ago, on November 9, 1989.
• It was a moment that shocked the world and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War — culminating in the toppling of the East German communist dictatorship, the reunification of Germany in 1990, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Berlin Wall dismantling saw anti-communism, and communism intolerance, spread quickly around Eastern Europe with free elections and economic reforms following suit.

Three outcomes of the fall of the Berlin Wall were the end of travel restrictions for East Germans, a sudden increase of East Germans moving to the West, and the change from a planned economy to a free market.

The Berlin wall divided families who found themselves unable to visit each other. Many East Berliners were cut off from their jobs. West Berliners demonstrated against the wall and their mayor Willy Brandt led the criticism against the United States who they felt had failed to respond.

The occupation of West Germany by many wealthy countries drastically boosted their economy. Once the wall fell, however, there was a glaring issue with East Germany being far behind West Germany economically. They lost their currency, and many government workers for the GDR (German Democratic Republic) lost their jobs.

The aftereffects of World War Two were what shaped Cold War Germany. The post-war state of Germany was grim: about 1/4 of housing had been destroyed, the economic infrastructure had largely collapsed, inflation was rampant, there was a shortage of food, and millions of homeless Germans from the east were returning.

Germany is the top economic power in Europe and the fourth globally. However, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s economy is estimated to have contracted by 4.9% in 2020 (IMF).

WASHINGTON — The United States economy officially entered a recession in February 2020, the committee that calls downturns announced on Monday, bringing the longest expansion on record to an end as the coronavirus pandemic caused economic activity to slow sharply.

The UK has been crowned the world’s fifth richest country in the world in a new report that measures the total wealth amassed by each country’s individuals. This is despite its relatively small population compared with countries such as Germany, which ranked fourth with a total wealth of $9.36 trillion.

Many countries have a name that they call themselves (known as an endonym) but are called different names by other countries (known as an exonym). Germany, for example, was called Germany by its inhabitants long before the country was united and began to call itself Deutschland.

The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine.