West Germany formally joined NATO on May 5, 1955, and the Warsaw Pact was signed less than two weeks later, on May 14. Joining the USSR in the alliance were Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland and Romania.
To industrialize by making use of the massive supply of cheap labour.
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Initiative, referendum, and recall.
The initiative is the process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes , and in some states, constitutional amendments.
Referendum is a measure that appears on the ballot.There is a legislative referendum where the legislature refers a measure to the voters for their approval, and then there is a popular referendum, where the measure appears on the ballot as a result of voter petition drive.
Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office.
