History & Politics History: Homo heidelbergensis Neanderthal man Wotan Donar Freya Die Walküre Valhalla runes Ding/Thing Cherusci Alemani Tacitus Varus Arminius Battle of the Teutoburger Wald/ Schlacht um/Köln Castellum Confluentes/ Koblenz Vindobonna/Vienna Donau/Limes/Rhein Germania Inferior Germania Superior Raetia/Rhaetia Noricum Marcus Aurelius Constantine Völkerwanderung European folk migrations Odoacer Theodoric the Great Ostrogoths Visigoths Atilla the Huns Battle of Chalons Bishop Wulfila Sachsen/Saxons Franken/Franks Merovingians Clovis/Chlodwig Charles Martel Carolingians Pepin Karl der Große Battle of Tours Aachen Dec. 25, 800 Boniface, Treaty of Verdun Vikings Mittelalter feudalism Kaiser König/Königin Herzog/Herzogin Graf/Gräfin Ritter Priester Mӧnch Erzbischof Bischof Papst Otto I Battle of Lechfeld Holy Roman Emperor, 962 Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation Magyars Salian Dynasty/Frankish Dynasty Henry IV/Heinrich IV. Investiture dispute Walk to Canossa Great Interregnum Concordat of Worms Hohenstaufen/Swabian Dynasty Deutscher Ritter Orden Baltic Crusades Latvia/Estonia/Riga Prussian Crusade Königsberg Riga Battle of Tannenberg Friederich Barbarossa Third Crusade Dürnstein/Richard of England Eastern Battle of Marchfeld Babenbergs Habsburgs Rudolph I Golden Bull 1356 Kurfürst Hanseatic League/Hanse Lübeck Hamburg Bremen Council of Constance Emperor Maximillian I Landsknecht Reformation Zwingli Calvin Frederick the Wise of Saxony Martin Luther Philipp Melanchthon Johann Tetzel sale of indulgences Wittenberg Wartburg 95 Theses Diet of Worms Emperor Charles V Deutscher Bauernkrieg/Peasant Revolt Thomas Münzer of Augsburg Death Hexenverfolgung Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 Defenestration of Prague Catholic League Protestant Magdeburg Gustavus Adolphus Sweden and Denmark Tilly Wallenstein Peace of Westphalia Peace of Münster of Vienna, 1683 Great Turkish War, 1683-1699 Louis XIV Counterreformation the Fuggers
expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg War of Spanish Succession Prince Eugene of Savoy Hohenzollern the Great Elector/der Große Kurfürst the Sergeant King Kingdom of Prussia Frederick I, King of Prussia Friedrich II. (der Große) The Pragmatic Sanction Theresia Marie Antoinette War of Austrian Succession/ Silesian Wars Seven Years War Catherine the Great Napoleon von Habsburg Battle of Austerlitz Franz II Confederation of the Rhine Wars of Liberation Battle of Nations (Leipzig) Waterloo Blücher Prince Metternich Congress of Vienna Carlsbad Decrees Vormärz 1848 March Revolts Frankfurt Constitution of 1849 Paulskirche Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Wittelsbachs Ludwig II Otto I of Greece Otto von Bismarck Kulturkampf North German Confederation Danish War Seven Weeks War Battle of Kӧniggrätz Franco-Prussian War Battle of Deutsches Reich Wilhelm I Fredrick III Wilhelm II Helgoland German Colonies: German East Africa/ (Tanzania) German Southwest Africa (Namibia) Kamerun Togo Kiautschau Marshall Islands Mariana Islands German Samoa New Guinea Caroline Islands Emperor Franz Josef Sissi Ausgleich of 1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia Emperor Maximillian of Mexico Archduke Franz Ferdinand Emperor Charles I/Kaiser Karl I. WWI: dates, alliances, etc The House of Windsor The Zimmermann Telegram Treaty of Versailles Treaty of St. Germain Karl Renner Polish Corridor Danzig Gustav Stresemann League of Nations Weimar Republic General Paul von Hindenburg Friedrich Ebert The Great Depression Hyperinflation French Occupation of the Ruhr Zeppelin Hindenburg Adolf Hitler Mein Munich Putsch 1923 SA SS Reich burning of the Reichstag Enabling Act of 1933 Spanish Civil War Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht KZ (Konzentrationslager) Final Solution Holocaust Nazi-Soviet Pact/Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact Munich Conference Sudetenland Munich Agreement Engelbert Dollfuss Anschluss Ostmark September 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg Axis Powers die Weisse Rose die Geschwister Scholl Battle of Britain Operation Barbarossa Battle of Stalingrad Battle of the Bulge bombing of Dresden Claus von Stauffenberg Yalta Conference Torgau May 8, 1945 Admiral Dönitz Potsdam Agreement Die Mauer/Berlin Wall Der Eisene Vorhang Checkpoint Charlie Trümmerfrauen Nuremberg Trials 1949 Federal Republic of Germany Grundgesetz NATO UN German Democratic Republic
SED - Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Warsaw Pact COMECON Stasi Walter Ulbricht Austrian State Treaty 1955 Berlin Blockade Berlin Airlift Marshall Plan Wiederaufbau Währungsreform Wirtschaftsreform 1957 Saarland Berlin Wall Konrad Adenauer Ludwig Erhard Kurt Kiesinger Willy Brandt Helmut Schmidt Helmut Kohl Gerhard Schröder Angela Merkel Ostpolitik 1972 Olympics Leipzig demonstrations Nikolaikirche, Leipzig November 9, 1989 Treaty of Reunification October 3, 1990 Die Wende Ossis und Wessis European Common Market European Union Eurozone – 1999 Pope Benedict XVI PEGIDA Flüchtlingspolitik Alternative für Deutschland Liechtenstein 1719 established Vaduz and Schellenberg 1868 army disbanded Customs Treaty with Customs Treaty with Switzerland 1990 Switzerland Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden Rütli Meadow Swiss Confederation 1291 Battle of Morgarten 1499 Peace of Basel John Calvin Ulrich Zwingli Swiss Guard Helvetic Republic Armed neutrality 1971 German-American History: 1608 Jamestown Peter Minuit 1683 Krefeld/Germantown, PA Franz Daniel Pastorius John Peter Zenger Molly Pitcher Hessians Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Frederick A. Muehlenberg John Astor Studebaker Brothers The 48’ers Turnvereine Major General Franz Siegel Karl Schurz George Armstrong Custer Johann Sutter Levi Strauss Edward Anheuser Adolphus Busch Adolf Coors Frederick Miller Frederick Pabst Bernhard Stroh Josef Schlitz Henry Heinz Milton Hershey Heinrich Steinway L. Frank Baum Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Christian Leyendecker Rudolph Dirks Charles Schultz Theodore Geisel Harvey Firestone General John Pershing Herbert Hoover German-American Bund Dwight D. Eisenhower Wagner Lou Gehrig George Hermann (Babe) Ruth Henry Kissinger Frank Sieberling Walt Disney John D. Rockefeller William Boeing Walter Chrysler Conrad Hilton Oscar Hammerstein II Clark Gable Fred Astaire Arnold Schwarzenegger Renee Zellweger Sandra Bullock Leonardo Di Caprio German-Texan History: Friedrich Diercks/Johann Friedrich Industry, Texas Adelsverein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas Fischer-Miller Grant Prince Solms von Braunfels Baron Johann von Meusebach Indianola/Karlshaven William Gebhart Menger Galveston Zeitung Sons of Hermann San Antonio/King William District New Braunfels Fredericksburg Robert J. Kleberg Sunday houses Vereinskirche Luckenbach Easter Fires of Fredericksburg