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Religious Conflicts and the Rise of Prussia

Bismarck Creates the Second Reich

Weimar Republic

Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin
Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz

The German people in 1919 elected a national assembly. At Weimar it drew up a constitution for a democratic republic, and Friedrich Ebert was elected the first president. The new republic faced enormous challenges, as Germany had been thrown into political, social, and economic turmoil by the war, the collapse of the empire, and the terms of the peace treaty. Unemployment and hunger mounted. In the Treaty of Rapallo of 1922, the new Soviet…

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Dictatorship Under Hitler

Hitler Launches World War II

Allied Nations Occupy Germany

West Germany

East Germany


Germany Since Reunification

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