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After the First World War, on 10 January 1920, Germany lost about 13% of its territory to its neighbours (not including its colonies Germany also lost at the same time [2]), and the Weimar Republic was formed two days before this war was over.
Germany is the first port-of-call in any study of the origins of World War I. Germany before World War I was a country struggling to assert its place in the world. It was still a comparatively young nation-state in 1914, having been unified for less than a half-century.
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Germany - Unification, Imperialism, WWI: The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts.
The Weimar Republic was Germany’s government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany’s new...
History of Germany - Germany from 1871 to 1918: The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished in short decisive conflicts.
After WWII, all territorial increases were canceled, and pre-war Germany territory was divided into British, French, American, and Soviet occupation zones. Germany’s former eastern lands were given to Poland and the USSR.
One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the border into Belgium, starting the first major battle of World War I. The Great War killed 10 million...
World War I began in the Balkans and occurred between July 1914 and November 11, 1918. By the end of the war, over 20 million people would be killed. After World War I four empires collapsed (The German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire).
This map compares Germany’s borders before and after the First World War to show the territory it lost after the Peace Treaty of 1919. There are numerous markings on the map. A legend in the bottom right corner explains them: