With Europe firmly divided into communist and capitalist, Germany became the new battle ground. There was the Berlin Blockade this was aimed at bluffing the Allies into renegotiation the division of Germany in his favor. This act did work, the allies just called his bluff by flying over Russian...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Germanic people remained in small tribes until they were unified under Charlemagne in the late 8th and early 9th centuries. For centuries, despite a common language, like most of Europe, the German-speaking people were divided into dozens...
Germany lost World War I, and with this lost there were subject to the peace terms of the victorious Allies. It was only right that the Allies enforce peace demands, that would weaken Germany. They had just spent 4 years fighting a war, and had lost 5.5 million men to it. They wanted...
1945 to 1967 Frankfurt, September 19, 1946: The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (German Sociological Association, GSA) held its first Soziologentag ("Sociologists' Day") after the end of World War II. The GSA was the first academic society to be re-established in Germany after 1945...
On the afternoon of August 3, 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war agai
How was Germany divided during the Cold War? How did American entry into World War I affect the Allied Powers? How was World War I a global war? How did the Allies divide Germany at the Potsdam Conference? How did Germany attempt to break the English blockade during World War...
How was Germany divided during the Cold War? How was the Berlin Blockade related to the Cold War? How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause WWII? How did the Berlin Blockade impact the world? How did the Treaty of Versailles, and its aftermath, help lead directly to World ...
both Hitler and Stalin would come to terms and agree to a treaty that divided Poland into two spheres. Secret protocols to the pact indicated the demarcation lines and other things as well. The countries of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland were secretly divided up as well giving both Germa...
with the Congress of Berlin in 1878. In the years after, Germany under Bismarck followed a kind of dual policy toward the Ottoman Empire: to use it as a deflector of tensions from the center of Europe and to gradually get Germany closer to the Ottomans as a possible partner. In ...
After WWI, Germany fell into poverty. Everyday, lines of people were seen in the streets waiting to purchase bread. People were poor and desperate. Hitler saw this and used it. He gave people hope and the economy improved and he was announced chancellor of Germany in 1933. Government suspec...