reunification
Divided parts merging
Reunification is the process of bringing together what was once divided, typically applied to political entities.
Germany's reunification in 1990 joined East and West after decades of Cold War separation.
The term appears in discussions of divided nations: Korean reunification remains elusive.
On a personal scale, reunification describes families or groups coming back together after forced separation.
Legal family formation
- reunionGathering after separation
- separationState of being apart
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
custody · fostering · kinship · lineage · homecoming · embrace · belonging · identity
Restoration of friendly relations
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- detenteRelaxation of strained relations
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
accord · settlement · rapprochement · dialogue · compromise · resolution · peacekeeping · coexistence
Absorbing into a whole
- incorporationForming a legal entity
- mergerCorporate combination
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- fusionJoining into unity
convergence · blending · absorption · alignment · harmonization · standardization · centralization · coordination
Central European nation
- KoreaEast Asian divided peninsula
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
- DMZWeapon-free border zone
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
perestroika · checkpoints · families · divided · aftermath · legacy · commemoration · anniversary
Barrier separating spaces
- divisionSplitting into parts
- borderOuter edge or limit
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- treatyBinding pact between nations
annexation · secession · independence · statehood · nationalism · self-determination · diplomacy · negotiation
adoption
Legal family formation
- reunionGathering after separation
- separationState of being apart
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
reconciliation · custody · fostering · kinship · lineage · homecoming · embrace · belonging · identity · roots
reconciliation
Restoration of friendly relations
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- detenteRelaxation of strained relations
armistice · accord · settlement · rapprochement · dialogue · compromise · resolution · peacekeeping · coexistence · healing
assimilation
Absorbing into a whole
- incorporationForming a legal entity
- mergerCorporate combination
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
fusion · convergence · blending · absorption · alignment · harmonization · standardization · centralization · coordination · synchronization
Germany
Central European nation
glasnost · perestroika · checkpoints · families · divided · aftermath · legacy · commemoration · anniversary · monument
partition
Barrier separating spaces
- divisionSplitting into parts
- borderOuter edge or limit
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
treaty · annexation · secession · independence · statehood · nationalism · self-determination · diplomacy · negotiation · referendum
- Berlin historyBerlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, West Berlin
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- German MovementsNazism, Bauhaus, White Rose, denazification, neo-Nazism
- postwar GermanyWest Germany, East Germany, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, Federal Republic
- Ecumenismecumenical, ecumenism, interchurch, cross-denominational, intercommunion
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
reunificationpartition
Barrier separating spaces
division · separation · secession · breakup · splitting
reunificationdisintegration
Process of breaking apart
splintering · fracturing · atomization · decentralization · dispersal
reunificationseparation
State of being apart
estrangement · divorce · split · breakup · dispersal
- family reunificationRejoining separated relatives
- German reunificationMerging of divided nation