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Federal Republic of Germany   /fˈɛdərəl ripˈəblək əv dʒˈərməni/   Listen
Federal Republic of Germany

noun
1.
A republic in north central Europe on the North Sea; established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat; reunified with East Germany in 1990.  Synonym: West Germany.
2.
A republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990.  Synonyms: Deutschland, FRG, Germany.





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... struggles immersed the country in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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