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Domination by modernizing France during the era of the French Revolution (1790s to 1815) produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law. Nevertheless ...
At the Potsdam conference (July–August 1945), with the US seeking to implement the Morgenthau plan, drawn up by Henry Morgenthau Jr., the United States Secretary of the Treasury, [2] the victorious Allies decided to abolish the German armed forces as well as all munitions factories and civilian industries that could support them.
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has its roots in the Reich Federation of German Industry (RDI). [2] On 19 June 1933, during the National Socialist era, the Reich Federation of German Industry was merged with the Federation of German Employers' Associations to form the Reich Industry Group (de: Reichsstand der Deutschen Industrie). [3]
General map of Germany. Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Although Germany seized the oil supplies/reserves of conquered states—for example reducing France to a mere 8 percent of its pre-war oil consumption – this was still not enough for the needs of the war. [132] Acute fuel-shortages forced the German military to cut back on training for its drivers and pilots, because training would waste fuel ...
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.
In the United States, unemployment fluctuated during the 1950s, but dropped steadily during the 1960s. OECD members enjoyed real GDP growth averaging over 4% per year in the 1950s, and nearly 5% per year in the 1960s, compared with 3% in the 1970s and 2% in the 1980s.
Karl Benz's 1885 Patent Motorwagen (replica). It is considered the world's first I.C.E.-driven car to be series-produced. Opel Olympia (1935–1937). Motor-car pioneers Karl Benz (who later went on to start Mercedes-Benz) and Nicolaus Otto developed four-stroke internal combustion engines in the late 1870s; Benz fitted his design to a coach in 1887, which led to the modern-day motor car.