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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, a revival of the ancient Imperial Roman state, was founded at the outset of the 9th century by Charlemagne, who in 800 had himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome. -
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Prussia
Prussia was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. -
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of French domination over most of continental Europe. ended Nov-20-1815 -
Holy Roman Empire Falls
The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, abdicated his title and released all imperial states and officials from their oaths and obligations to the empire -
Prussia forms the German Empire
The German Empire was established in 1871 as a federation of states under a constitutional monarchy. The Prussian king Wilhelm I, as German emperor, became the head of the state. In his function as chancellor, Otto von Bismarck tried to secure the Empire's position through a policy of European alliances. -
World War 1
When Germany was defeated in World War I it didn't only lose the war: Its empire collapsed and it had to part with around one-seventh of its land mass and 10% of its population. Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to France and West Prussia was given up to the newly re-established Poland. -
Wiemar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic. -
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. -
World War 2
Germany started World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939. In subsequent years, Germany invaded 11 countries. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II -
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Cold War Germany
Germany was divided during the Cold War between the Western Allies led by the United States and the Soviet Union in the East, with the two countries (in East and West) not being united until 1990. -
Germany divided East and West
By 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union had begun to emerge as ideologically opposed 'superpowers', each wanting to exert their influence in the post-war world. Germany became a focus of Cold War politics and as divisions between East and West became more pronounced, so too did the division of Germany. -
Germany becomes rich
Money Supply M2 in Germany averaged 996.94 EUR Billion from 1960 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 3821.20 EUR Billion in August of 2022. -
Germany is reunited
Germany was divided during the Cold War between the Western Allies led by the United States and the Soviet Union in the East, with the two countries (in East and West) not being united until 1990. -
Germany helps create the EU
Germany signed the Treaty Establishing the European Union together with France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. -
Germany refuses to make nukes
Although Germany has the technical capability to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMD), since World War II it has generally refrained from producing those weapons. However, Germany participates in the NATO nuclear weapons sharing arrangements and trains for delivering United States nuclear weapons. -
Covid-19
As like the United States the Germans try to stop the virus with some success -
German innervation with the Russian-Ukrainian War
Germany is also the largest contributor to the refinancing fund of the European Peace Facility, which so far has enabled the provision of 2.5 billion euro, to be made available between 2022 and 2026, to support the delivery of military equipment of EU member states to the Ukrainian armed forces.