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  2. Timeline of German history - Wikipedia

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    Angela Merkel did not candidate again after 18 years at the party leadership. 2019: British troops in Germany that stayed there since World War II are expected to leave. 2020 19 February Hanau shootings: 24 February Volkmarsen ramming attack: 22 August Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny arrives in Berlin for medical treatment. 29 August

  3. German entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    Germany was the leader of the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary at the start of the war as well as the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria; arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting chiefly of Russia, France, and Britain at the beginning of the war, Italy, which joined the Allies in 1915, and the United States, which joined the ...

  4. Timeline of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Germany sends Russia an ultimatum. [5] July 31 Politics: Sweden announces neutrality in the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia [6] Politics: Russia mobilizes for war. August 1 Politics: Germany declares war on Russia and mobilizes. [7] [8] [9] Western: France mobilizes. [7] Politics: Italy declares its neutrality. [10] Politics: German ...

  5. History of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Germany quickly remilitarized, annexed its German-speaking neighbors and invaded Poland, triggering World War II. During the war, the Nazis established a systematic genocide program known as the Holocaust which killed 17 million people, including 6 million Jews (representing 2/3rds of the European Jewish population). By 1944, the German Army ...

  6. List of wars involving Germany - Wikipedia

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    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").

  7. Territorial evolution of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Germany in 1939 before the start of World War II. On 13 March 1939, Nazi armies entered Prague and proceeded to occupy the remainder of Bohemia and Moravia, which was transformed into a protectorate of the Reich. The eastern half of the country, Slovakia, became a separate pro-Nazi state, the Slovak Republic.

  8. History of Germany during World War I - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Military history of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Germany signed the document of surrender to end its participation in World War II on 8 May 1945. Germany signed the document of surrender to end its participation in World War II on 8 May 1945. In the following months, the Soviets passed control over eastern Germany to the Polish Communist regime, creating a situation of a fait accompli.