Germany 's effort to incorporate any major military actions into the slowly progressing European Security and Defence Policy did not meet the expectations of the U.S. during the Gulf War . After the September 11 attacks , German-American political relations were strengthened in an effort to combat terrorism , and Germany sent troops to Afghanistan as part of the NATO force . Yet , discord continued over the Iraq War , when then German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and foreign minister Joschka Fischer made efforts to prevent war and consequently did not join the U.S. and UK led multinational force in Iraq . Anti-Americanism rose to the surface after the attacks of 11 September 2001 as hostile German intellectuals argued there were ugly links between globalization , Americanization , and terrorism
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Germany–United States relations