Reunification

In 1989 the reunification of Germany was celebrated.

The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German reunification in 1990.

Between 1982 and 1991, there was a new wave of migration to the West for family reunification.

Margaret Thatcher had opposed speedy reunification, fearing a united Germany would dominate Europe, changing the power dynamics of the European Union.

In the years following reunification, many East Germans became increasingly disillusioned as they struggled to adjust themselves to new realities.

A peaceful reunification of Taiwan with China has become virtually impossible.

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Israel strongly argued against the idea of German reunification.

Huge street parties are planned in the German capital this weekend to mark 25 years since the Berlin Wall's fall and the country's reunification. For older generations, memories of the wall, and its destruction, remain seared in the mind.

Twenty-four years after its reunification, Germany has become America’s most valuable European partner, says Annette Heuser, executive director and founder of the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Washington-based arm of a German-based organization promoting trans-Atlantic ties.