Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin Wall comes tumbling down and the two Germanies grow closer together, Germans will increasingly identify with one another and will grow resentful of years of forced separation. Surging German pride will slowly smooth over ideological divisions between East and West and increase pressure for reunification...
...most destructive power in the world during the last century. The last time Germany unified, after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, surging nationalism under Otto von Bismarck caused changes in the balance of power that eventually led to World War I. And we all know of the horrible forces German nationalism produced...
...reunified Germany aligned itself with NATO, the Soviet Union would fear an invasion from the West and would arm accordingly. Such fears would not be irrational. German armies have attacked the Soviet Union twice in the last 75 years by marching through Eastern Europe...
...situation would be no better if a reunified Germany chose neutrality. Since Warsaw Pact conventional forces already far outnumber NATO's in Europe, NATO's loss of its West German ally would necessitate a NATO arms buildup. Such a buildup would have the same destabilizing effects of the Warsaw Pact build up in the previous scenario...
...superpowers aren't the only ones who would have to worry. Europe is no stranger to invading German armies. Just ask Poland or Czechoslovakia. Or France. Or Belgium. Even Great Britain can't afford to forget the shelling it suffered at German hands during World...