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of 1870-1871. This conflict brought
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kingdoms together to form the German
Empire. This new European empire acquired
colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific,
resulting in several colonial wars in the
late 1800s and early 1900s. That empire
later fought and lost World War One,
resulting in Germany losing its colonies,
as well as large sections of its homeland
and setting the stage for revolutions,
economic collapse, and the rise of Hitler
and the Nazis. After losing World War
Two, Germany once again found itself split
apart, this time into two new nations,
popularly called West Germany and East
Germany. The two Germanys faced off
against each other as part of the
world-wide Cold War. After the Communist
regimes in Eastern Europe and Russia fell,
and the Cold War ended, the two Germanys
re-united into the latest version of a
unified nation. In the early 21st Century,
Germany now finds itself a wealthy,
democratic member of the NATO alliance;
and as a member of NATO, German troops
once again face combat in the anti-Taliban
war in Afghanistan. Franco-Prussian
War (July 19, 1870
– May 10, 1871)--Major war between
the Prussian-led German forces and the
Second French Empire. This war helped
cause the unification of Germany and paved
the way for the ongoing hostility which
was a leading cause of World War
One. Arab
Rising in East
Africa
(1888-1890)--Uprising against German
colonial policies and German
rule. Wahehe
War in East Africa
(1891-1893)--Uprising against German
colonial policies and German
rule. Samoan
Civil War
(1887-1889)--German involvement in Samoan
Civil conflicts as a part of the growth of
the German Empire into the
Pacific. Samoan
Civil War
(1893-1894)--German involvement in Samoan
Civil conflicts as a part of the growth of
the German Empire into the
Pacific. Boxer
Rebellion/China
Expedition
(1900)--Germany joined ten other nations
in sending military forces to fight the
Chinese government as well as anti-Western
Chinese rebels. Hottentot
Uprising in South West
Africa
(1903)--Uprising against German colonial
policies and German rule. Insurrection
in Cameroon
(1904-1905)--Uprising against German
colonial policies and German
rule. Maji
Maji Uprising in East Africa
(1905)--Uprising
against German colonial policies and
German rule. World
War I
(1914-1918) Kiel
Mutiny
(1918)--Mutiny by Navy sailors. This event
sparked the German Revolution. German
Revolution
(1918-1919)--Overthrow of the German
monarchy. This revolution effectively
caused Germany to surrender to the Allies
and ended World War One. Bavarian
Revolution
(Nov.
7, 1918-May 1,
1919)--Commuist
revolt suppressed by the government and
the Freikorps militias. Spartacist
Revolt (Jan.
6-Jan. 15, 1919)--Commuist revolt
suppressed by the government and the
Freikorps militias. Kapp
Putsch (March,
1920)--Failed military coup against the
German government. Upper
Silesia (Polish)
Rebellion
(1921)--German and Polish militias fight
prior to a vote on which nation gets the
coal-rich region of Silesia. French
and Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr
Valley (Jan. 11,
1923-August, 1925)--Germany fell behind in
war payments to the Allies due to the
collapse of the German economy. France and
Belgium invade and occupy the industrial
Ruhr Valley region of western Germany
until the re-payments are complete.
Hitler's
Beer Hall Putsch
(Nov. 8-11, 1923)--War veteran and
political agitator, Adolf Hitler led his
Nazi Party in an attempted overthrow of
the Bavarian government. The police
crushed his uprising, and Hitler was
sentenced to prison. Spanish
Civil War
(1936-1939)--Nazi Germany and Fascist
Italy send troops and air power to help
Fascist Spanish rebel Francisco Franco
defeat Spanish Republican
forces. German
Annexation of
Austria (March
12-13, 1938)--Germany invades and annexes
Austria. German
Annexation of the
Sudetenland
(1938)--Hitler threatened to invade
Czechoslovakia in order to gain control of
the German-speaking Sudeten border region.
Britain and France allow Hitler to seize
the Sudetenland. German
Annexation of Bohemia and
Moravia (March
10-16, 1939)--Hitler completes his
takeover of defenseless Czechoslovakia.
The eastern part of the nation became an
"independent" satellite of Germany called
Slovakia. World
War II
(1939-1945)--The European portion of World
War II officially begins on Sept. 1, 1939
with the German invasion of Poland. The
European war ended in May, 1945 with the
complete defeat and occupation of Germany
by the Allies. Germany was eventually
split into the democratic West Germany and
the Communist East Germany until the East
German collapse in 1989 and the
re-unification of Germany in October,
1990. East
German Uprising of
1953--East Germans
revolt against Soviet control. The
uprising is crushed by the
Soviets. Warsaw
Pact Invasion of
Czechoslovakia
(1968)--East German forces particpated in
the Soviet-led invasion of
Czechoslovakia. Kosovo
War
(1999)--German air power participated int
the Kosovo War against Serbai
(Yugoslavia), as a part of the NATO
Alliance. The War
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