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B. The Eurozone is comprised of 19 European Union members – including Greece and Germany - which have adopted the euro as their common currency and sole legal tender. Greece's received its large bailout to protect the euro. Germany was the largest contributor and also led demands that Greece adopt severe austerity measures.
D. Germany has the largest economy in Europe and fifth largest in the world. Germany ranks just behind Japan, its World War II ally which also was defeated in 1945.
C. West Germany became the 15th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1955, three years after Greece joined the military alliance. The European Union and Eurozone were created later. The dispute over loans and the recent talk of war reparations have created growing antagonism between the two nations.
A. The Cold War refers to an often violent rivalry with the United Sates and its NATO allies facing off against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. The tension began at the end of World War II and ended with the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Revolution, Czechoslovakia invasion as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars were part of the nearly 50 years of conflict.