How did WWI end in Germany?
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Germany agreed to an armistice the Kaiser abdicated and fled to Holland.Sailors revolted in Kiel and revolution started spreading.  Germany was occupied and dissarmed, and made to pay for the war. What was left of the german army put down most of the rebellion.
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Actually, Germany collapsed economically and Austria collapsed because of racial and ethnic disillusionment.\n\nIn 1916, the German High Command initiated War Socialism so that the government would set prices for everything regardless of the situation. From that point on, German industry and agriculture produced as little as humanly possible and, even though Germany occupied Poland Rumania and the Ukraine over half a million Germans starved to death. The Austro-Hungarian empire had been tottering since 1848 when it recognized Hungarian autonomy, but as the war continued to go badly the various nationalities began to support the war less and less. In 1917 Emperor Max attempted to negotiate a separate peace, and the German army basically occupied the capital city, Vienna. By November of 1918, many of the ethnic army units marched home and many of the ethnic provinces declared their indepence.
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Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. After six months of negotiations which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 1918 in Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many agreements to the treaty, one of the more important and recognized agreements required that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain members of the Allies.
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not true. germany fought for supremacy, the allies fought for survival.
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They started off already from very different levels of industrialization and education of the population.\nGermany as one country just started to be (http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/bismarck.html), Russia was an empire under the Tsar for a long time already.\n\nCheck your history books regarding WW I and the consequences.\nCheck your history books regarding the October Revolution.\n\nRussia lost most of its intelligentsia in the civil disorder following the October Revolution. Germany lost most of its intelligentsia at the end of WW II.\n\nBoth had to rebuild from scratch after WW II. The Soviet Union used material from Germany to kick start their industry after WW II.
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Good question, The war had just ended successfully, and that led to the Roaring Twenties. Not sure what you would call it.
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If Germany would have known when to stop with it's expansionism, Nazism would probably still be in place.\n    Sucking up a few smaller countries just wasn't enough for the madman Hitler, he had to push his agenda of extermination of the Jews and total world conquest.
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All of them. Finland took the easy way out and sided with the Germans. Sort of.
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totally ignore Kails, he has no clue what he is talking about, Italy was knocked out of the war before Germany, then the allies moved in on Germany, Russia from the East and UK etc from the West and met in Berlin where Hitler shot himself before the bunker that the high command were sheltering was captured. and that was the day we celebrate as V.E day (victory in Europe) then in the Pacific it continued for a while until America dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civilian centres and Japan surrendered. the allied soldiers would of known it was over cos their commanding officers would of told them. although there are some rumours that Japanese soldiers remained in Korea till this day fighting on in the mountains cos they did  not know the war was over \nhope that helps
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I don't think Germany ever felt that way.  The feelings of humiliation that developed due to the loss of WWI and the requirements for Germany under the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the fall of the Weimar republic, the rise of Hitler and thus to World War II.
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In 1929 Germany couldn't pay the high reparation costs to France that had been decided in the Treaty of Versailles. So France invaded the Ruhr area of Germany, where there was lots of industry, and diverted all of the profits of this area to France.\n\nBecause this meant there was now very little money in Germany, the Weimar Government (of Germany) printed lots of extra money. This resulted in 'hyperinflation' (where there is so much money that it becomes worthless) and meant that people lost all their savings overnight and went bankrupt.\nThis website explains it very clearly:
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I believe you are thinking of when Germany occupied the demilitarized Rhineland in 1936.\n\nWhen Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War in 1919, her government agreed to keep the Rhineland (the area between the Rhine river and the border with France) free of military forces and defensive fortifications. Because Germany accepted guilt for the First World War, this would set up a buffer zone behind which France could feel secure.\n\nIn 1932, when the military provisions of the Treaty were about to expire in 1934, Germany had been forced to sign the Treaty of Locarno which extended the letter of the treaty indefinitely. Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and decided he could tear up the Locarno treaty without the rest of the world reacting militarily. France was in poor shape economically, Italy was considered an outlaw because of her invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, and England was starting to say she would rather have a more powerful Germany between Western Europe and Soviet Russia.\n\nWhen Hitler ordered the reoccupation of the Rhineland, he was taking a very dangerous gamble, and had told his generals not to resist if France opposed this move militarily. By not acting, France not only weakened her own defense but strengthened Hitler's political position in Germany.
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Germany: General Alfred Jodl signs official surrender of Germany on 08 May 1945. \n\nJapan: General Douglas MacArthur accepts surrender of Japan on 02 September 1945.
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It was Prussia, and that was the war in 1866. It lasted 7 weeks and and Prussia annexed Hanover, Hesse-Cassel and Nassau into a Nort German Confederation, which was joined later by Saxony. The south German states of Barvaria, Wuettemberg, Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt remained independent allies of Prussia."Germany " didnt exsist untill after the War of 1871 against France.
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After WWI the victors forced Germany to pay reparations from the war. This forced Germany into a huge defecit and resulted in the rising of Hitler. After WWII many learned the lesson from WWI and determined that we should provide assistance to the countries most devastated by the war, one being Japan. America and other countries provided money and instituted a democracy in Japan. The people of Japan were able to take advantage of this and rise to become the nation they are today.
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The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 1918 in Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many agreements to the treaty, one of the more important and recognized agreements required that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain members of the Allies.\n\nTerms imposed by the Treaty included Germany losing a certain amount of its own territory to a number of surrounding countries, being stripped of all its overseas and African colonies, and its ability to make war again was limited by restrictions on the size of its military. Germany also acknowledged and agreed to respect the independence of Austria. Germany's foreign minister, Hermann Müller, undersigned it on June 28, 1919. The treaty was ratified by the League of Nations on January 10, 1920. In Germany, the treaty caused shock and humiliation that contributed to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933.\n\nConditions\nThe treaty had provided for the creation of the League of Nations, a major goal of US president Wilson. The League of Nations was intended to arbitrate international disputes and thereby avoid future wars. Only four of Wilson's Fourteen Points were realized, since Wilson was compelled to compromise with Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando on some points in exchange for retaining approval of the "fourteenth point", the League of Nations. The common view has been that France's Clemenceau was the most vigorous in his pursuit of revenge against Germany, the Western Front of the war having been fought chiefly on French soil.\n\nOther provisions included the loss of the German colonial empire and loss of some territories Germany had annexed or conquered in the relatively recent past:\n\nAlsace-Lorraine, the territories which were ceded to Germany in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on February 26, 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of May 10, 1871, were restored to French sovereignty without plebiscite as from the date of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. (area 14,522 km², 1,815,000 inhabitants (1905)), \nNorthern Schleswig including the German-dominated town of Tondern Tønder in Schleswig-Holstein, after the Schleswig Plebiscite, to Denmark (3,984 km², 163,600 inhabitants (1920)), \nthe Prussian provinces Posen and (West Prussia), which Prussia had conquered in Partitions of Poland, were returned to the reborn Polish state after the local population had gain its freedom in Great Poland Uprising (area 53,800 km² 4,224,000 inhabitants (1931)) \nHultschin Hulczyn area of Upper Silesia to Czechoslovakia (316 or 333 km² and 49,000 people), \nEast part of Upper Silesia, to Poland (area 3,214 km² 965,000 people), although after plebiscite 60 % voted for Germany \nthe area of German cities Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium \nthe area of Soldau in East Prussia (railway station on the Warsaw-Gdańsk route) to Poland (area 492 km²), \nNorthern part of East Prussia as Memelland under control of France, later transferred to Lithuania without plebiscite. \nin Eastern part of West Prussia and in Southern part of East Prussia Warmia and Masuria, small area to Poland, \nthe province Saarland under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after that a plebiscite between France and Germany, \nthe city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) with the delta of Vistula river at the Baltic Sea was made the Freie Stadt Danzig (Free City of Danzig) under the League of Nations. (area 1893 km², 408,000 inhabitants 1929). \nArticle 156 of the treaty transferred German concessions in Shandong, China to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to Ch
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On November 11, 1918, at 5:00 am the Allied and German delegates signed an armistice on terms established by the Allies; at 11:00 the same morning hostilities on the western front came to an end. The end of the war on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 prompted relief and jubilation in all of the belligerent countries. The murderous struggle that had dragged on for over four years had finally ended. Political leaders then took up the task of trying to transform the military armistice into a durable peace.