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A Consise History Of Germany

IMPORTANT DATES
AD 9
Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
486
The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany.
843
The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms. The German kingdom soon divided into five duchies.
962
Otto I was crowned Holy Roman emperor in Aachen.
1075
A dispute between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII marked the beginning of a series of civil wars contesting church power.
1300s
The Hanseatic League was the supreme commercial and military power in northern Germany.
1517
Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation.
1555
The Peace of Augsburg recognized the right of princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their lands.
1648
The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War.
1740
Frederick the Great became king of Prussia and began building Prussia into a great power.
1806
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine.
1815
The German Confederation was formed at the Congress of Vienna.
1848
Revolutions swept across Germany. The first German national assembly met at Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country.
1871
Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized his dream of a united Germany as the German Empire was founded.
1918-1919
Germany was forced to accept harsh terms under the Treaty of Versailles that brought an end to World War I. The Weimar Republic was founded.
1933
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis assumed power.
1939
Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.
1945
Allied armies occupied Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. Nazi war criminals were tried at Nürnberg.
1949
Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany. Berlin, in East Germany, was also divided between the two countries.
1955
East Germany and West Germany became sovereign states. East Germany...