West Germany (PJW)

West Germany was the name commonly used for the Federal Republic of Germany between it's creation in 1949 and its reunification with East Germany in 1986. During this Cold War era, NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany were divided by the inner German border.

West Germany was formed by the unification of the American, British, and French occupation zones following the end of World War II. Initially, the German military was kept small and the nation, a Cold War frontline, was fortified by troops belonging to those nations. Needs in other warzones across the globe such as the Middle East and Southeast Asia led to the withdrawal of foreign troops and the allowance of a larger German military.

De-nazification of West Germany never finished, and the resurgence in military coincided with a resurgence in right-wing authoritarian nationalism. While former Nazi's gained power behind the scenes, the nationalists eventually gained a public victory in the election of 1970.

Chancellor Andreas Hillgruber would intervene in the French Civil War, but it became clear the intervention was actually an annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. War returned to Europe as the French and Germans fought once more. In desperation, French dictator Yves Godard launched two nuclear weapons at Germany, destroying Dusseldorf and Bonn. Unbeknownst the world, West Germany had finished their own nuclear weapons program of their own, and subsequently vaporized Paris, utterly collapsing France.

The stream of French refugees, as well as the destruction from the two nuclear weapons, led to Hillgruber assuming emergency powers. The Bundestag had been utterly destroyed in the nuclear conflict, meaning there was little opposition. Following the near collapse of the Soviet Union following the Sino-Soviet Exchange of 1984, East Germany escaped the Soviet grip. The two nations were reunited into the German Federation in 1986.