In 1871, Germany became a nation-state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire….Germany.

listen)) was the German state from 1918 to 1933, as it existed as a federal constitutional republic. The state was officially named the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), and was also referred to as the German Republic (Deutsche Republik)….Weimar Republic.

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Many Germans felt their country had received a very harsh deal in the Treaty of Versailles . They resented the government for agreeing to its conditions and signing it, even though they were forced to by the Allies .

The name Germany and the other similar-sounding names above are all derived from the Latin Germania, of the 3rd century BC, a word simply describing fertile land behind the limes.

Since reunification in 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany has had 16 rather than just eleven Länder or federal states, the five new states being Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Districts in the former East Germany (GDR) were merged to recreate the former historic states.

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The first people to inhabit the region we now call Germany were Celts. Gradually they were displaced by Germanic tribes moving down from the north, but their exact origins are unknown.

Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is state of Central Europe established in 1920. It is the political successor state of the majority of the territories of the German Empire, after defeat in World War I, the abdication of Wilhelm II (May 1920) and May Revolution.

For the Bonn Republic, the German state between 1949 and 1990, see West Germany. For the Berlin Republic, the current German state since 1990, see Germany. This article needs additional citations for verification.

The Soviets reacted quickly to the action in West Germany. In October 1949, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was officially announced. These actions in 1949 marked the end of any talk of a reunified Germany.

In English the country was usually simply called “Germany”; the term “Weimar Republic” did not become common in English until the 1930s. After four years of hostilities in World War I from 1914 to 1918 with heavy losses, Germany was exhausted and sued for peace under desperate circumstances.