Contents
Historical Setting: Early History to 1945
Early History
Medieval Germany
The Protestant Reformation
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-48
The Age of Enlightened Absolutism, 1648-1789
The French Revolution and Germany
The German Confederation, 1815-66
Bismarck and Unification
Imperial Germany
The Weimar Republic, 1918-33
The Third Reich, 1933-45
Historical Setting: 1945 to 1990
Postwar Occupation and Division
Birth of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German
Democratic Republic
West Germany and the Community of Nations
The Ulbricht Era, 1949-71
The Social Democratic-Free Democratic Coalition, 1969-82
The Christian Democratic/Christian Socialist-Free Democratic
Coalition
The Honecker Era, 1971-89
Opening of the Berlin Wall and Unification
Map of Germany
SOURCE: Area Handbook of the US Library of Congress
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