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World War I Allied propaganda poster showing German expansionist ambitions. The only territory that Germany annexed during the First World War was the German-Belgian-Dutch condominium Neutral Moresnet. Since 1914, Germany occupied the territory, and on 27 June 1915, it was annexed as part of Prussia.
The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Present-day Germany is a federal republic which combines the States of Germany.
The aftermath of World War I saw far-reaching and wide-ranging cultural, economic, and social change across Europe, Asia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, new ones were formed, boundaries were redrawn, international organizations were ...
In contrast to the lands awarded to the restored Polish state by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, the German territories lost with the post-World War II Potsdam Agreement were either almost exclusively inhabited by Germans before 1945 (the bulk of East Prussia, Lower Silesia, Farther Pomerania, and parts of Western Pomerania, Lusatia ...
The following 13 pages use this file: Causes of World War II; Former eastern territories of Germany; French war planning 1920–1940; German nationalism
11 November 1918: Armistice ending the fighting in World War I signed; 28 June 1919: Treaty of Versailles and the Rhineland Agreement signed [1] 10 January 1920: Treaty of Versailles and Rhineland Agreement came into force; the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission established [3] 11 January 1923: Occupation of the Ruhr began; lasted until 25 ...
Following the German Empire's defeat in World War I, the victorious Allied powers in the Treaty of Versailles reduced Germany's size by 65,000 sq km (25,000 sq mi), or about 13% of its former territory. The areas that were lost had about 7 million inhabitants, or 12% of imperial Germany's population. [2]
Germany and the Central Powers fought the Allies of WWI between 28 July 1914 and 11 November 1918. The war ended with 20 million military and civilian deaths, [ 26 ] including 2,037,000 German soldiers [ 27 ] and from 424,000 [ 28 ] to 763,000 [ 29 ] [ 30 ] civilians, many of them from disease and starvation as a result of the Allied blockade ...