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After the war, Germany would be split into four occupied zones, with a quadripartite occupation of Berlin as well, prior to unification of Germany. Stalin agreed to let France have the fourth occupation zone in Germany and Austria, carved out from the British and American zones. France would also be granted a seat in the Allied Control Council.
The unification of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ] ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).
After the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia led the Northern states into a federal state called the North German Confederation (1867–1870). The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933).
Germany and Britain managed through Chile to have Ecuador deny the United States a naval base in the Galápagos Islands. [95] Claims that German communities in South America acted as extensions of the German Empire were ubiquituous by 1900 but it has never been proved that these communities acted in such way to any significant degree. [98]
26 February – German company Commerzbank is founded in Hamburg.; 10 March – The Deutsche Bank is granted a banking licence by the Prussian government.; 16 July – In response to Bismarck's refusal to cede parts of the Rhineland to Emperor Napoleon III of France, [1] the near succession of a Hohenzollern to the Spanish throne, and the Ems telegram, [2] France declares war on Prussia ...
Map of the Prussian and German offensives, 5–6 August 1870. The Battle of Spicheren on 5 August was the second of three critical French defeats. Moltke had originally planned to keep Bazaine's army on the Saar River until he could attack it with the 2nd Army in front and the 1st Army on its left flank, while the 3rd Army closed towards the rear.
The German government rejected the French suggestion of a parallel occupation. On 3 April, German regular troops of the Reichswehr, under General Oskar von Watter, entered the neutral zone in force, and experienced little difficulty in dealing with the armed leftist workers. The revolutionary headquarters at Mülheim were taken on April 4 ...
German colonies in Africa, 1914. The following were German African protectorates: Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916; German South West Africa, 1884–1915; German West Africa, 1884–1915 Togoland, 1884–1916; Kamerun, from 1884–1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885–1918