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This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany
At the peace negotiations that began in Versailles in January 1919, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau sought to fix France's border with Germany at the Rhine. [8] All the territories on the west bank of the river were to be detached from Germany and form one or more sovereign states aligned with France.
The territorial evolution of Germany in this article include all changes in the modern territory of Germany from its unification making it a country on 1 January 1871 to the present although the history of "Germany" as a territorial polity concept and the history of the ethnic Germans are much longer and much more complex.
23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress (died 2021) 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist (died 2023) 16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician (died 1996) 19 June - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010) 7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (died ...
Grossman, Mark ed. Encyclopedia of the Interwar Years: From 1919 to 1939 (2000). Hasluck, E. L. Foreign Affairs 1919 to 1937 (Cambridge University Press, 1938). Hicks, John D. Republican Ascendancy, 1921–1933 (1960) for USA online; Hobsbawm, Eric J. (1994). The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991. – a view from the Left.
The historiographical concept of a German Sonderweg has had a turbulent history. 19th-century scholars who emphasised a separate German path to modernity saw it as a positive factor that differentiated Germany from the "western path" typified by Great Britain. They stressed the strong bureaucratic state, reforms initiated by Bismarck and other ...
The Revolution of 1918/19 is one of the most important events in the modern history of Germany, yet it is poorly embedded in the historical memory of Germans. [137] The failure of the Weimar Republic that the revolution brought into being and the Nazi era that followed it obstructed the view of the events for a long time.
International relations (1919–1939) covers the main interactions shaping world history in this era, known as the interwar period, with emphasis on diplomacy and economic relations. The coverage here follows the diplomatic history of World War I and precedes the diplomatic history of World War II .