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The German lands saw armies marching back and forth, bringing devastation (albeit on a far lower scale than the Thirty Years' War, almost two centuries before), but also bringing new ideas of liberty and civil rights for the people. Prussia and Austria ended their failed wars with France but (with Russia) partitioned Poland among themselves in ...
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
German Civil War may refer to: German Peasants' War (1524–1525) Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547) Second Schmalkaldic War (1552) Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Austro-Prussian War (1866) The political violence (1918–1933) The German Revolution (1918–1919) Hamburg Uprising (1923) Beer Hall Putsch (1923) 20 July plot (1944)
From 1618 to 1648 the Thirty Years' War ravaged Germany, when it became the main theatre of war in the conflict between France and the Habsburgs for predominance in Europe. Besides being at war with Catholic France, Germany was attacked by the Lutheran King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden , who won many victories until he was killed at Lützen .
Scholars of German history have engaged in decades of debate over how the successes and failures of the Frankfurt Parliament contribute to the historiographical explanations of German nation building. One school of thought, which emerged after The Great War and gained momentum in the aftermath of World War II, maintains that the failure of ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The Overlooked Majority: German Women in the Four Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945–1949, a Comparative Study (PDF) (Thesis). The Ohio State University. [permanent dead link ] Weber, Jurgen. Germany, 1945–1990 (Central European University Press, 2004) Ziemke, Earl Frederick (1975). The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany: 1944–1946 ...
German militarism was a broad cultural and social phenomenon between 1815 and 1945, which developed out of the creation of standing armies in the 18th century. The numerical increase of militaristic structures in the Holy Roman Empire led to an increasing influence of military culture deep into civilian life.