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Prehistory. Early history: Germanic tribes, Roman conquests, and the Migration Period. Middle Ages. Early modern Germany. 1648–1815. 1815–1871. German Empire, 1871–1918. Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990. Federal Republic of Germany, 1990–present. See also. Notes. References.
States of the German Empire. The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia. These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in ...
The German Empire or Germany ("Deutsches Reich" or "Deutsches Kaiserreich"or Deutschland in the German language) is the name for a group of German countries from January 18, 1871 to November 9, 1918. This is from the Unification of Germany when Wilhelm I of Prussia was made German Kaiser to when the third Emperor Wilhelm II was removed from ...
German Empire, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year span, Denmark , the Habsburg monarchy , and France had been vanquished.
The German Emperor (German: Deutscher Kaiser, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈkaɪzɐ] ⓘ) was the official title of the head of state and hereditary ruler of the German Empire. A specifically chosen term, it was introduced with the 1 January 1871 constitution and lasted until the official abdication of Wilhelm II on 9 November 1918. [1]
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
Contents. Germany from 1871 to 1918. The German Empire, 1871–1914. Unification of Germany by Prussia. The unification of Germany by Prussia, which brought most of north-central Europe into one kingdom. (more) The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia.
