Germany

Background. As Europe's richest and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed the country in two devastating world wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied in 1945 by the victorious Allied powers of the U.S., U.K., France, and the Soviet Union. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were...