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- German_Empire abstract "The German Empire (German: Deutsches Kaiserreich), variously referred to as the German Reich/Realm, the Second Reich (by the Nazi Party), or more accurately Imperial Germany, was the historical German nation state that existed from the unification of Germany in 1871 to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918, when Germany became a federal republic.The German Empire consisted of 27 constituent territories, with most of them being ruled by royal families. While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the empire, the Prussian leaders were supplanted by leaders from all over Germany, and Prussia itself played a lesser role. As Dwyer (2005) points out, Prussia's "political and cultural influence had diminished considerably" by the 1890s. The German Empire's three largest neighbours were all rivals: Imperial Russia to the east, France to the west, and Austria-Hungary, a rival but also an ally, to the south-east.After 1850, the states of Germany had rapidly become industrialized, with particular strengths in coal, iron (and later steel), chemicals, and railways. In 1871, when the new German Empire was created, it had a population of 41 million people, and by 1913 this had increased to 68 million. A heavily rural collection of states in 1815, the united Germany became predominantly urban. During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire operated as an industrial, technological, and scientific giant, gaining more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia, and the United States combined.Germany became a great power, boasting a rapidly growing rail network, the world's strongest army, and a fast-growing industrial base. In less than a decade, its navy went from being a negligible force to one which was second only to the Royal Navy. After the removal of the powerful Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1890 (following the deaths of two Emperors, Wilhelm I and Frederick III, in 1888), the young Emperor Wilhelm II engaged in increasingly reckless foreign policies that left the Empire isolated. Its network of small colonies in Africa and the Pacific paled in comparison to the British and French empires, and only a small number became profitable. When the great crisis of 1914 arrived, the German Empire had only two allies, being Austria-Hungary, a great power at the time, and the Ottoman Empire. They were later joined by Bulgaria.In the First World War, German plans to capture Paris quickly in autumn 1914 failed, and the war on the Western Front, against the forces of the British Empire and France, became a stalemate. The Allied naval blockade made for increasing shortages of food, and Germany was repeatedly forced to send troops to bolster Austria and Turkey on other fronts. However, Germany had great success on the Eastern Front; as a result of the Communists' determination to end Russian involvement in the war, it carved out large Eastern territories following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 was designed to strangle the British; it failed, because of the use of a trans-Atlantic convoy system. But the declaration—along with the Zimmermann Telegram—did bring the United States into the war, with its large reserves of money, food, armaments, and soldiers. Meanwhile, German civilians and soldiers had become war-weary and radicalised by the Russian Revolution. The high command under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled the country, as they gambled on one last offensive in spring 1918 before the Americans could arrive in force, using large numbers of troops and guns withdrawn from the Eastern Front. This failed, and by October the armies had been in retreat since August, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire had collapsed, and the German people had lost faith in their political system. The Empire collapsed overnight in the November 1918 Revolution, as the Emperor and all the ruling kings and dukes abdicated, and a republic took over.".
- German_Empire anthem Deutschlandlied.
- German_Empire anthem Die_Wacht_am_Rhein.
- German_Empire anthem Heil_dir_im_Siegerkranz.
- German_Empire anthem Himno_de_Riego.
- German_Empire currency Bremen_thaler.
- German_Empire currency French_franc.
- German_Empire currency German_Papiermark.
- German_Empire currency German_gold_mark.
- German_Empire currency Hamburg_mark.
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- German_Empire currency Vereinsthaler.
- German_Empire dissolutionDate "1918-11-28".
- German_Empire dissolutionYear "1918".
- German_Empire foundingDate "1871-01-18".
- German_Empire foundingYear "1871".
- German_Empire governmentType Federal_monarchy.
- German_Empire governmentType Parliamentary_system.
- German_Empire motto "(\"God with us\")".
- German_Empire motto "Gott mit uns".
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- German_Empire capital "Berlin".
- German_Empire commonLanguages German_language.
- German_Empire commonLanguages "Official:".
- German_Empire commonName "Germany".
- German_Empire continent "Europe".
- German_Empire conventionalLongName "German Reich".
- German_Empire country "Germany".
- German_Empire currency Bremen_thaler.
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- German_Empire dateEnd "--11-28".
- German_Empire dateEvent "1871-04-16".
- German_Empire dateEvent "1914-07-28".
- German_Empire dateEvent "1918-11-03".
- German_Empire dateEvent "1918-11-11".
- German_Empire datePost "1919-06-28".
- German_Empire dateStart "--01-18".
- German_Empire deputy "Friedrich Ebert".
- German_Empire deputy "Otto von Bismarck".
- German_Empire era New_Imperialism.
- German_Empire era World_War_I.
- German_Empire event Armistice_of_11_November_1918.
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- German_Empire eventEnd Abdication.
- German_Empire eventEnd Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor.
- German_Empire eventPost Treaty_of_Versailles.
- German_Empire eventStart Unification_of_Germany.
- German_Empire flag "Flag of Germany#North German Confederation and the German Empire".
- German_Empire flagP "Flag of Bavaria .svg".
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- German_Empire flagS "Flag of Belgium.svg".
- German_Empire flagS "Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg".
- German_Empire flagS "Flag of Denmark.svg".
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- German_Empire flagS "Flag of Lithuania 1918-1940.svg".
- German_Empire flagS "Flag of Poland.svg".
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