A guarded concrete structure, created in the Cold War era, which divided the two sectors of Germany's most populous city.
The merger of Germany and Austria, banned under the Versailles Treaty, which was nevertheless effected in 1938.
One of two major battleships (along with the Tirpitz) created for the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
Germany's scheme for victory in 1914: it involved a rush to Paris via Belgium to force a quick French surrender.
A range of low, wooded hills where in 9 A.D. the Roman army was cut to pieces by Germanic tribes.
Germany's first democratic government, a fourteen year period sandwiched between the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and the rise of Hitler.
A 1521 assembly in which Martin Luther was called to defend his views; he was ultimately denounced as a heretic.
A two year period in the 1920s in which Belgium and France used military troops to control the Rhineland in order to ensure continued reparations.
The early, failed attempt by Adolf Hitler to take over Germany; it resulted in his arrest for treason and a prison stay in which he wrote Mein Kampf.
An uprising by sailors of the High Seas Fleet which triggered a general revolution and ultimately the end of the German monarchy.
An amalgamation of 39 German-speaking states, created by the post-Napoleonic Congress of Vienna.
Also known as the Red Army Faction, it was a far-left West German militant group in the 1970s.
The 19th century meeting between colonial powers in which European states divvied up Africa amongst themselves.
A religious and military institution founded in the 12th century to aid Christians on pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
The ruling family of Franks during the 4th-8th century, who extended their rule and influence across much of modern-day Germanic territory.
A confederation created by medieval German towns and merchant communities to protect their trading interests
The geopolitical concept that the German people needed more 'room to live' and therefore should expand at their neighbors' expense.
'The Night of Broken Glass' - a coordinated series of attacks on Jewish property and synagogues that occurred shortly before the onset of World War II.
The Sacrum Romanum Imperium, a kingdom (sometimes quite loosely connected) created by the Pope's 800 A.D. coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor.
A diplomatic meeting spawned by the crisis over Czechoslovakia in which England and France adopted a policy of appeasement towards Hitler's expansionist aims.
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