What, in your opinion, were the major problems that emerged from the fall of the wall for the newly...

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What, in your opinion, were the major problems that emerged from the fall of the wall for the newly united Germany? Could some of these problems have been avoided? How? In answering these questions, you need to reflect upon and refer to the various events outlined in this lesson. Who were the players during the "two plus four" negotiations and what were their interests? What was the overall mood in Germany at the time and how would the alternatives you suggest have affected that mood?

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Title: German Reunification
Contents
Introduction	3
Major Problems of Reunification of Germany	3
Two Plus Four Negotiations	4
Alternatives that could Affect	5
Conclusion	5
Works Cited	7
Introduction
German unification with the aspect of the fall of Berlin Wall was one of the most significant events in the world history that receipt the entire Geo politics of the Europe in 1989. In November 1989 after the mass protest in East Berlin the Berlin wall that divided the communist is Germany from the west Germany crumbled down. After the second world war Soviet Union and its former western allies gradually erected the iron wall between the eastern and West Germany. After the defeat of Germany in the Second World War and the main players the US, UK, France and USSR divided Germany. While the east Germany came to be known as the German Democratic Republic it became the strong hold of Soviet Union. These powers splinted Germany into different zones while Berlin became an island that was surrounded by the communist is Germany.  
Major Problems of Reunification of Germany
Subsequently the revolutions in 1980s had mark the communist and the capitalist divide that was symbolically termed as the Iron curtain. Due to the series of events that took place along with the events of Sinatra Doctrine. This game the autonomy to the Eastern bloc governments to function and thereby weakened the Soviet hold on the allies. This was practically one of the most effective moves that lead to some of the major problems in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although it was subsequent that the unification of Germany begins and it also sparked the aspect of end of the cold war (Ebner).  
Economic unification caused partial hardships mostly in the Eastern Germany. The most significantly and extremely hit scenario emerged in the food manufacturing sector and metallurgy (Baskaran). Agriculture had also suffered enormously and more than 16 percent of its labour force were unemployed till the beginning of the 21st century(Eckert).

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