Answer : offered freedom.
The entrance of West Germany into NATO was the final step in integrating that nation into the defense system of Western Europe. It was also the final nail in the coffin as far as any possibility of a reunited Germany in the near future. For the next 35 years, East and West Germany came to symbolize the animosities of the Cold War. In 1990, Germany was finally reunified; the new German state remained a member of NATO.
A religious schism is a division between people who considered themselves to be of one faith before the schism itself. There have been multiple religious schisms in history, each with their own specific consequences. Examples of such schisms in Christianity include the schism of Eastern orthodoxy from Western catholicism (which is usually dated at around 1054) or the Great schism in the Western papacy from 1378 to 1417.
Was it the liberal party?