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1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania (German plans to invade and conquer Lithuania if they don't give Memelland to Nazi Germany, which happened in March 1939) Nazi propossals of a German-Lithuanian military alliance to invade Poland during Danzig crisis , returning the Vilnius Region to Lithuania in exchange of being turned into a German Puppet ...
The Manstein plan has often been called Operation Sichelschnitt, a transliteration of "sickle cut", a catchy expression used after the events by Winston Churchill.After the war, German generals adopted the term, which led to a misunderstanding that this was the official name of the plan or at least of the attack by Army Group A.
Generalplan Ost was Nazi Germany's plan for the colonization and Germanization of Central and Eastern Europe over a period of twenty-five years. [16] [17] [18] Implementing it would have necessitated genocide [19] and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale to be undertaken in the Eastern European territories occupied by Germany during World War II.
Nazi Germany's aggressive desire for territorial expansion ranks as a major cause of World War II. [ 3 ] There remains historical contention on the ultimate scope involved with the New Order: it may have exclusively been a continental project limited to the scope of Europe , or a broader roadmap for an eventual German-centric world government .
The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr .
The plan also called for extensive upgrades to Germany's naval infrastructure to accommodate the new fleet; larger dry docks were to be built at Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, and much of the island of Rügen was to be removed to provide a large harbor in the Baltic. Plan Z was given the highest priority of all industrial projects. [24]
This included Silesia, Germany's second-largest industrial center after the Ruhr. West Berlin is shown in yellow. The industrial plans for Germany were designs the Allies of World War II considered imposing on Germany in the Aftermath of World War II to reduce and manage Germany's industrial capacity. [1]
In 1957, West Germany is one of the founding nations of the European Economic Community. In 1973, West Germany joins the United Nations (formed in 1945). In 1991, a unified Germany is allowed by the Allies of World War II to become fully sovereign after signing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.