NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Federal Constitutional Court, German Empire, Basic Law For The Federal Republic Of Germany
3 Oct 2018
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Intro: the difficult path to democracy: german territory was fragmented into 39 separate states after 1815, but by. 1871, bismarck united germany under the leadership of the hereditary king of prussia. parliamentary democracy. helped trigger the first world war. This second reich ended in 1918: after 1890, the german empire pursued an aggressive foreign policy that succeeded by the weimar republic, germany(cid:495)s first (cid:523)unsuccessful(cid:524) attempt at, the weimar republic, (cid:494)a republic without republicans(cid:495), ended in early 1933. War. (is rule, and his third reich, ended in (cid:883)9(cid:886)(cid:887) with germany(cid:495)s defeat and with the appointment of adolf hitler, head of the fascist nazi party, as. By 1939, hitler had led germany into the second world: american, british, and french forces occupied what became west germany; unconditional surrender to the allies. Germany were founded formally in 1949, and both became sovereign in: russian control of eastern europe collapsed by the late 1980s, allowing east and west germany to unify in 1990.
