Today, I would like to talk about Germany, an ancient, powerful and mysterious country whose ancestors were Germans who could fight well.
It is not large (357167 square kilometers), the population is not large (about 80 million), mainly German, composed of 16 federal states, the capital of Berlin, the economically and technologically developed capitalist country of the European Union. His main impression is that in the early 20th century, two world wars were provoked, but each time it was an unjust war, which ended in failure.
The first was the First World War in 1914, triggered by the events of Sarajevo, in which the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria formed the Allies of the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the United States of America, the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Kingdom of Greece.
The second was the Second World War, launched by Nazi leader Hitler in 1939, when a worldwide anti-fascist coalition rose up in revolt.
German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Prussia, Austria... So many European countries have often heard about it, but they have not been able to figure out their relationship, and today they simply make a list.
Things start from ancient Rome a long time ago, no further we do not trace it, Europe in the ancient Roman Empire period divided into East Rome and Western Rome, Eastern Rome by Byzantium, and then replaced by the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire is also very cattle, and then later became today's Republic of Turkey, the development trajectory of this branch is roughly like this;
The Western Romans were destroyed early on by a group of Germans and became fragmented. The Germanic peoples were a multi-ethnic state, and there were many nationalities in the country, and one of the tribes had a remarkable figure, Charlemagne, who reunified Western Europe, established the Frankish Kingdom, and became the ambassador of influence who became the cover of the playing cards. He had three sons, and later divided into three countries: France (West Francia), Italy (Middle Francia), and Germany (East Francia).
In about 843 (during the Tang Dynasty in China), Germany became independent from the Frankish kingdom, and ancient Germany was born! Its scope was much larger than that of present-day Germany, including N vassal states including present-day Germany, Prussia, and Austria. It has experienced the era of the First Empire, the Second Empire and the Third Empire.
At this time, Under the leadership of a powerful king, Otto the Great, Germany founded the Holy Roman Empire in Germany in 962, continued to carry forward the character of being able to fight good wars, and fought a long-term southern conquest and northern war, known as the First German Empire, which was destroyed under the blows of Napoleon in 1806.
Divided and merged, Germany became a mess again.
For a long time, Germany was the strongest of the two princely states of Prussia and Austria, and after constant struggle, it gradually developed and grew.
In 1862, the Kingdom of Prussia at this time appeared an iron-blooded chancellor Bismarck, he was a Prussian nobleman, the family had a large manor, received higher education, had super ambition and ability, after he came to power, through legislation to establish the world's first workers' pension, health and health insurance system and social insurance, and began to plan the great cause of German unification, he was one of the most outstanding politicians of the 19th century, and later became the first chancellor of the German Empire. He won the Prussian-Danish War (1864), the Austro-Prussian War (1866), and the Franco-Prussian War (1871), squeezing Austria out of Germany.
In 1867, unwilling to be lonely, Austria annexed Hungary and reorganized the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 1871, the Kingdom of Prussia created the Second German Empire, and Germany completed the unification of Prussia as the main body.
In 1914, the German Empire united with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and other countries to launch the First World War, and in 1918 it was defeated, and the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia collapsed.
After that, Germany was temporarily led by the German Social Democratic Party and the Catholic Centre Party until 1933, when another major German party, the Nazi Party, came to power, and Hitler became head of state, beginning the crazy era of the Third Reich in Germany.
In 1939, Germany launched the Second World War, Germany, Japan, Italy and other fascist countries attacked the World Anti-Fascist Alliance, until 1945 again defeated.
This time, Germany finally paid a heavy price for this, and Hitler committed suicide. German territory and the capital Berlin were occupied by the victorious powers and split into several pieces.
After the end of World War II in 1945, Germany's territory was occupied by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, and Berlin was divided into four pieces. Soon, the American, British, and French occupation zones merged into one zone, called West Germany; the Soviet occupation zone was called East Germany.
This matter can be slightly known from Sanmao's works, when she studied in Germany, the holiday from West Germany to East Germany, the young and beautiful female students met a handsome and handsome officer, wrote a moving article "Allure", a spark in the sea became an eternal touch.
In this way, it was not until March 1990 that Germany, which had been divided for more than 40 years, was reunited again.
Today, Germany's development is still strong, and its economy, science and technology still stand among the world's great powers.
When I was a child, I learned a text "The Last Lesson", which is probably about the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia defeated France, France was forced to cede some land to Prussia, the children were about to separate the country, war was never popular with the common people, and war brought pain to mankind!
