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The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history. The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German: Märzrevolution), were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries.
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
Johann Rall †. Hessians (US: / ˈhɛʃənz / or UK: / ˈhɛsiənz /) [1] were German soldiers who served as auxiliaries to the British Army in several major wars in the 18th century, most notably the American Revolutionary War. [2][3] The term is a synecdoche for all Germans who fought on the British side, since 65% came from the German ...
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
1923: Bajram Curri attacks gendarmerie of Kruma, Albania. 1923: The founding of the Republic of Turkey by overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and introduction of Atatürk's Reforms. 1923: The Klaipėda Revolt in the Memel territory that had been detached from Germany after World War I. 1923: Küstrin Putsch in Germany.
The Baden Revolution (German: Badische Revolution) of 1848/1849 was a regional uprising in the Grand Duchy of Baden which was part of the revolutionary unrest that gripped almost all of Central Europe at that time. As part of the popular liberal March Revolution in the states of the German Confederation the revolution in the state of Baden in ...
The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870–1918 (2004) excerpt and text search; Citino, Robert M. The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (2008) excerpt and text search; Craig, Gordon A. The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640–1945 (1964) excerpt and text search
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire , then, in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were ...