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what are 5 major events in German history, that helped shaped the country today?

what were 2 things that changed the world in the 1500's and why were they important?

what is the thing that keeps Gemany cycling today?

why did the wall go up between East and West Germany?

what was the biggest Event that happend in 1400's,1500's, and 1600's?

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

Answer 1

As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.1400 — King Wenceslas was removed from the throne by the electors on account of his incapacity

1417 — The Hohenzollern Frederick I, burgrave of Nuremberg, became elector of Brandenburg

1452 — Last coronation of a German emperor in Rome (Frederick III)

1493 — Peasants' uprising on the upper Rhine

1495 — Proclamation of the "Eternal Peace" at the Diet of Worms

1499 — Switzerland broke away from the empire

1517-1697

1517 — Luther proclaimed his 95 theses; beginning of the Reformation

1522-1523 — Uprising of the knights

1524-1525 — Peasants' War

1529 — The Turks laid siege to Vienna

1546-1547 — Emperor Charles V defeated the Protestant princes and towns allied against him

1555 — The Peace of Augsburg (the princes henceforth determine the religion of their territories)

1618 — A protest by Bohemian Protestants in Prague marked the beginning of the Thirty Years War

1648 — The Peace of Westphalia, concluded at Muenster and Osnabrueck, ended the Thirty Years War

1663-1806 — The "permanent imperial diet" at Regensburg (congress of representatives of the princes and towns of the empire)

1683 — Repulsion of the second Turkish attack on Vienna

1697 — Prince August the Strong of Saxony became King of Poland

1701-1890

1701 — The elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowned himself King Frederick I of Prussia in Koenigsberg

1717 — Introduction of general compulsory education in Prussia

1740-1742 — First Silesian War between Prussia and Austria

1744-1745 — Second Silesian War

1756-1763 — The Seven-Year War (Prussia against Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and most of the imperial electors). The peace of Hubertusburg (1763) established the Dualism of Prussia and Austria

1792 — Beginning of the war against revolutionary France

1803 — Redistribution of Germany

1806 — Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

1807 — Peace of Tilsit between France and Prussia
Beginning of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in Prussia

1813-1815 — Liberation wars against Napoleonic France

1815 — Founding of the German Confederation
Holy Alliance between Russia, Austria and Prussia to suppress liberal movements

1834 — Founding of the German Customs Union

1835 — First German railway between Nuremberg and Furth

1848 — Revolution in Germany;
Frankfurt National Assembly
Dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly
granting of a constitution

1849 — Campaign for a constitution for the Reich
Uprisings in Saxony, Breslau and Baden are violently repressed
Three Kings' Alliance between Prussia, Saxony and Hanover;
Passing of the 'Erfurt Reich Constitution' based on the Prussian policy of union

1850 — Implementation of the Prussian Constitution
Introduction of the three-class electoral system in Prussia

1861 — Founding of the German Progress Party
Death of Frederick William IV
accession to the throne of William I

1862 — Bismarck became Prime Minister of Prussia

1863 — Founding of the General German Workers Association (predecessor of Social Democracy) in Leipzig under the leadership of Ferdinand Lasalle

1864 — Prussian-Austrian victory over Denmark

1866 — War between Prussia and Austria; dissolution of the German Confederation

1870-1871 — Franco-German War

1871 — Founding of the German Empire with Bismarck as Reich Chancellor
Coronation of Emperor William I in Versailles

1872-1880 — Bismarck's "Kulturkampf" (cultural struggle) against the Catholic Church

1878-1890 — Persecution of the Social Democrats (Anti-Socialist Act)

1882 — Tripartite alliance with Austria and Italy

1883-1889 — Enactment of progressive social security legislation

1888 — Deaths of Kaiser William I and Frederick III
Accession to the throne of William II

1890 — Dismissal of Bismarck

1900-1948

1900 — The Civil Code

1914 — Outbreak of World War I

1918 — November revolution; armistice; declaration of a republic by the Social Democrat Scheidemann

1919 — Election of a National Assembly in Weimar
Friedrich Ebert elected Reich President
Peace Treaty of Versailles

1923 — Raging inflation; attempted coups by right-wing and left-wing radical groups

1925 — Hindenburg elected Reich President

1926 — Germany admitted to the League of Nations

1933 — Hitler became Reich Chancellor

1935 — Anti-Jewish "Nuremberg Laws"

1938 — Annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland

1939 — German-Soviet non-agression pact
Germany's attack on Poland, beginning of World War II

1942 — Wannsee Conference (Nazi leadership decides to systematically eradicate European Jewry)

1945 — Hitler's suicide; unconditional surrender and occupation of Germany
Potsdam Conference on Germany

1946-1948 — Constitutions adopted by the German Länder (states)

1948 — End of Allied administration; separate currency reforms in East and West Germany

1948-1949 — Blockade of West Berlin by the Soviet Union, Berlin Airlift

1949-1989

1949 — Founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic
Proclamation of the Basic Law (Constitution) of the Federal Republic of Germany
Election of the first Bundestag
Theodor Heuss Federal President (1949-1959)
Konrad Adenauer Federal Chancellor (1949-1963)

1950-1971 Walter Ulbricht leader of the SED (Communist Party of East Germany)

1951 — Federal Republic of Germany becomes member of the Council of Europe and of the European Coal and Steel Community

1953 — Uprising in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

1955 — Accession of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO and of the GDR to the Warsaw Pact

1957 — The Saarland becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany

1959-1969 — Heinrich Lubke Federal President

1961 — The government of East Germany builds the Berlin Wall

1963-1966 — Ludwig Erhard Federal Chancellor

1966-1969 — Kurt Georg Kiesinger Federal Chancellor (Grand Coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD)

1968 — Student unrest and "extra-parliamentary opposition" in the Federal Republic of Germany

1969-1974 — Willy Brandt Federal Chancellor
Gustav Heinemann Federal President (1969-1974)

1970 — The Federal Republic of Germany concludes treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland and begins negotiations with the GDR

1971 — Four Power (Quadripartite - US, Great Britain, France, and USSR) Agreement on Berlin
Chancellor Willy Brandt receives Nobel Peace Prize
Removal of Walter Ulbricht
Erich Honecker becomes leader of the SED and, in 1976, Head of State of the GDR

1972 — Basic Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR

1973 — East and West Germany become members of the United Nations

1974-1979 — Walter Scheel Federal President
Helmut Schmidt Federal Chancellor (1974-1982)
GDR deletes all references to the German nation from its constitution

1977 — Escalation of extreme left terrorism by the Red Army Faction in the Federal Republic of Germany

1979-1984 — Karl Carstens Federal President

1982 — Vote of no-confidence against Chancellor Schmidt
Helmut Kohl Federal Chancellor (1982-1998)
CDU/CSU and FDP form government coalition

1984 — Richard von Weizsaecker Federal President

1987 — Official visit by Erich Honecker, Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR, to the Federal Republic of Germany

1989 — Richard von Weizsaecker re-elected Federal President
Pressure by East Germans for greater freedom and reform in the GDR
Exodus of East Germans and mass demonstrations in GDR
Opening of the Berlin Wall
Meeting between Chancellor Kohl and GDR Prime Minister Modrow in Dresden

1990-1999

1990
February — The foreign ministers of the Four Powers and of the two German states begin formal talks ("Two-Plus-Four") on German unity
March — First free elections in the GDR
May — Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, establishing a Monetary, Economic and Social Union, signed in Bonn
July — Treaty enters into force
Visit by Chancellor Kohl to the Soviet Union to reach an agreement with President Gorbachev that united Germany shall have full sovereignty
August — Unification Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR signed in Berlin
September — Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany ("Two-Plus-Four Treaty") signed by the US, British, French, Soviet and two German foreign ministers in Moscow
October — Document suspending Four Powers rights signed in New York
GDR accedes to the Federal Republic of Germany
Berlin becomes the capital of unified Germany
December — First all-German elections to the Bundestag

1991
January — Bundestag elects Helmut Kohl Federal Chancellor of unified Germany
March — "Two-Plus-Four Treaty" formally making Germany a sovereign state, enters into force
June — Bundestag decision to move seat of government and parliament to Berlin

1992 — Signing of the Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht

1994
May — Roman Herzog Federal President (1994-1999)
July — Germany's Constitutional Court rules that German troops may participate in multinational military operations within the framework of the United Nations, given parliamentary approval

1998 — Social Democrats win Bundestag elections
Helmut Kohl steps down after 16 years as head of government
Gerhard Schroeder becomes chancellor, forms a coalition government with Green Party

1999 — Introduction of the euro for non-cash transactions in 11 participating European countries
Reichstag in Berlin becomes the official location of the Bundestag
Johannes Rau Federal President

2000 - Present

2000 — European Court of Justice ruling opens German armed forces to women participating in combat roles
Federal President Johannes Rau the first German politician to address Israeli Knesset in German
Expo 2000 in Hanover is first world fair held on German territory

2001 — Women join Germany's military combat forces for the first time
Germany's parliament condemns the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the US and endorses Germany's solidarity with the US
Chancellor Schröder prevails in crucial vote tying vote of confidence to the parliamentary approval of German military participation in the international war against terrorism
A total of 3,900 German troops are made available for Operation Enduring Freedom
The Bundestag approves participation of German armed forces in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan

2002 — Euro banknotes and coins replace national currencies in 12 participating member states of the European Union including Germany

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Answer 2

Otto I and the Holy Roman Empire
30 Years War
Unification in 1800s/Bizmarck
Two World Wars
Fall of the Berlin Wall

1517 Martin Luther and Scientific revolution

Bicycles?

East Germany wanted to keep out the West and to keep people form leaving the Soviet Warsaw Pact side into the Nato West side.

1400s : Printing Press
1500s: Martin Luther
1600s: 30 years War

Answer 3

I can only contribute a very little.

The formation of the Hanseatic league was important for businesses and helped the German states repel the Vikings.

Napoleon's invasion should be investigated. I believe it polarized the German states into grouping together - this became modern Germany. (don't trust me, check wikipedia for quick reference of a history book)

Bismark was a very important person in German history and had an important impact on German history - check it.

That's about all for my suggestions. There were several wars. How important they were to your question is up to you.

1864 Germany v. Denmark
1914 - very important set Germany up for Hitler's coming

Hitler actually did things that were positive even today for Germany. He (think so) caused the autobahns to be built and the first VW Bug, the Volkswagen.

His evils way outnumber his positives, but that should be part of your study, since his reign shaped today's Germany and its laws.

Answer 4

5 major events....
Bismark uniting Germany
WWI
WWII
Berlin Airlift
the Cold War


Wall went up between East and West Germany/Berlin since the west side was free and the east side was communist and the communists didnt want people escaping to the free region.

dunno about the other questions

Answer 5

You've got lots of info in the other answers but everyone forgot about Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms (I forget what century). There should be more than enough answers in you history text.

Answer 6

Nazis

Hitler

Haulocost

Oven

Jews

Hitler

Natzis

Killing of the Jews

Hitler Natzis

anything else i can help with?

Answer 7

http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/history/milestones.html This will give you the whole poop