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The treaty was ratified in 1991 by the united Germany. United Germany and Poland then finally settled the issue of the Oder–Neisse border by the German–Polish Border Treaty in November 1990. This ended the legal limbo which meant that for 45 years, people on both sides of the border could not be sure whether the status quo reached in 1945 ...
Shortly after, Poland seizes small border regions. 1939 March 14 — The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declares independence with German support. 1939 March 15 — Germany invades the remaining Czech lands and establishes the semi-autonomous Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Hungary invades and annexes the remainder of the Subcarpathian Rus'.
1821, July 10 – The borders between Oregon Country and Mexico are changed, as well as Spain ceding Florida, after Spain ratifies the Adams-Onís Treaty, which was drafted in 1819. 1822–1823 – The First Mexican Empire annexes Central America , but Central America declares independence in July 1823 following the fall of the Mexican monarchy.
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
The inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch–deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990.
Henry the Fowler, the duke of Saxony and Conrad's choice, was crowned king of Germany after his election by the dukes of the stem duchies. 923: 15 June: King Charles the Simple of Lotharingia was captured in battle by French forces. 924: 7 April: Berengar was murdered by a member of his retinue. 925
East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.
The German propaganda war included racist attacks against black French colonial troops. Following the signing of the Locarno Treaties that settled Germany's western border in late 1925, the northern occupation zone around Cologne was evacuated in January 1926.