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German Peasants' War: An uprising of German-speaking peasants began. 1525: German Peasants' War: The war ended in the defeat of the peasant army. 10 April: Prussian Homage: Grand Master Albert of the Teutonic Order resigned his position and was appointed duke of Prussia by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. 1529: 19 April
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").
Timeline of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation (1577–1580) Timeline of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) Timeline of the English Civil War (1642–1651) Timeline of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) Timeline of the French Revolution (1789–1799) Timeline of the War of 1812 ...
Before the war, Germany had attempted to use Indian nationalism and pan-Islamism to its advantage, a policy continued post-1914 by instigating uprisings in India, while the Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition urged Afghanistan to join the war on the side of Central Powers. However, contrary to British fears of a revolt in India, the outbreak of the ...
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Citino, Robert M. The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Cohen, Roger. Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble. New York: Alred A. Knopf ...
[87] [88] Some analysts grossly exaggerated the influence of Germans in South America even after the First World War when German influence somewhat declined. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] As the influence of United States grew all-over the Americas Germany concentrated its foreign policy efforts in the Southern Cone countries where US influence was weaker and ...
The victory in France resulted in an upswing in Hitler's popularity and an upsurge in war fever in Germany. [101] In violation of the provisions of the Hague Convention, industrial firms in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium were put to work producing war materiel for Germany. [102] German soldiers march near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 14 ...
World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. Germany's population had already responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]