Name: Sean Sreyroth

Royal University of Law and Economic

Lecture: Dr. Chea Seav Mey Subject: Critical Thinking Skill

Class: IR2 Topic: Germany

I. Summary
 East Germany and West Germany was united that already become the biggest economic
power in Europe in 1990. Germany was united but actually the new Germany was
smaller than the old Germany in 1937. During the Nazi regime in (1933-1945), was led
the Germany into many series of annexations and wars of conquest, that leave it
smaller, divided, and hardly any to contact between two parts.
 In 1938, Nazi Germany occupied Austria, In 1939 it seized the rest of Czechoslovakia
then invaded Poland – after making pact with the Soviet Union (the ‘Stalin–Hitler pact’)
under which the two powers shared out Poland. But Britain and France had given
guarantees to Poland Germany. At one stage in the (1939–45) war Germany, with its
allies, controlled most of Europe. During war, Germany was have crises and zones
(Berlin) was divided and the communists built a massive 30-mile wall across the middle
of Berlin in (1961). East Germany, which was made a Soviet ‘ally’, first in a bilateral
treaty and later in the Warsaw Pact. During 1955 West Germany joined NATO. In 1979
East Germany was made treaties with the USSR, Poland and East Germany, but the 17
million East Germans were still denied with the 62 million West Germans.
 By the end of that year German unification had been negotiated and accomplished. In
American–British–French–Soviet–German negotiations, it was agreed that the new
unified Germany would confirm its acceptance of the Oder–Neisse frontier and its
renunciation of nuclear weapons; that the Soviet forces would leave by 1994, and that
West Germany’s membership of the NATO alliance and the European Union would be
inherited by the new Germany.
II. Opinion
 Germany was getting the benefit after join NATO
 United Nation and European Union the European Union would be inherited by the new
Germany
 Germany was get the disadvantages because paying $6 billion towards the cost of
removing for USSR and country had been obliged to pay more than $1 trillion in
subsidies to modernize the eastern part