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historical nation, Germany
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Learn about William II, king of Prussia and the last German emperor.
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Overview of the start of World War I, including details of the June 28, 1914, assassination...
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Overview of the Battle of Verdun, 1916.
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Civil unrest and revolution breaking out in the face of Germany's imminent defeat...
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Chlodwig Karl Viktor, Fürst (prince) zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, detail from an...
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
French cuirassiers charging Prussian infantrymen at the Battle of Wörth (also called...
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Wounded soldiers receiving care after the Battle of Gravelotte, hand-coloured lithograph,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-pga-03090)
Surrender of Napoleon III after the Battle of Sedan, September 1, 1870.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. pga 03463)
Otto von Bismarck (right) meeting with Napoleon III after the latter's capture in...
From A History of France, by H.E. Marshall, 1912
Prussian troops marching past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during the Franco-Prussian...
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Crowning of King William I of Prussia as the German emperor, Versailles, France,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. ggbain 27988)
Louis II, detail from a portrait by Ferdinand Piloty; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,...
Courtesy of the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Map of the northern part of the German Empire (c. 1900) from the 10th edition of...
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Map of the southwestern part of the German Empire (c. 1900) from the 10th edition...
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Map of the eastern part of the German Empire (c. 1900) from the 10th edition of the...
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Rudolf von Bennigsen, detail from an oil painting by Franz von Lenbach, 1896; in...
Courtesy of the Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hanover
European penetration into Southern Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Map of Central Africa from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,...
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“Dropping the Pilot,” cartoon by Sir John Tenniel commenting on the forced resignation...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Ludwig Windthorst, c. 1889.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 146-2007-0214; photograph, Julius Braatz
Leo, Graf (count) von Caprivi, 1894.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Friedrich von Holstein, 1906.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 183-S28606; photograph, Hans Wollmann
Philipp, Fürst zu Eulenburg, 1898.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 146-2004-0098; photograph, o.Ang.
Bernhard, Fürst (prince) von Bülow, 1904.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
HMS Dreadnought, a British battleship launched at Portsmouth, England, in...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, detail from a portrait by Brant, 1909.
Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin
(From left to right) William II, Alfred von Tirpitz, and Helmuth von Moltke on the...
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy
A collection of significant facts about World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Russian prisoners captured at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 1914.
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Areas of control on the Western Front at the end of 1914.
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William II with Gen. Felix, Graf (count) von Bothmer, reviewing Austro-Hungarian...
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Walther Rathenau.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-20796)
(From left) Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Kaiser William II, and Gen. Erich...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3a42618)
Cartoon showing Alfred von Tirpitz's answer to British naval strength: unrestricted...
Image Asset Management/World History Archive/age fotostock
Georg, count von Hertling, 1918.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Delegates at negotiations for the treaties of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 26094)
Front page of The Daily Mirror reporting Russia's signing of the Treaty...
® John Frost Newspapers/Mary Evans Picture Library/age fotostock
Maximilian, prince of Baden, c. 1900.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Gustav Noske, 1933.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 102-14240; photograph, o.Ang.
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