What was the significance of Germany during the late 80's and early 90's? (This was a question on my study guide, and there was no article to go with it. Since the other questions on the guide were about the industrial revolution and the European Union, I’m guessing it has something to do with that)

The Berlin Wall fall

Explanation:

The Berlin Wall falls on 9 November 1989. The era of divided Germany between the East and the West comes to an end. The Berlin Wall created to prevent people from leaving East German, which came under the communism (Russia). The East German government construct the wall in 1961.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Communism began to crumble, led many nations including East Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, to join the European Union.

companies sell stock to their businesses grow and become "public"

hold on ill go look