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The Salian Dynasty ruled Germany from 1024-1255
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Jerusalem is taken from the Muslims on the urging of Pope Urban II. This was led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse.
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The Hohenstaufen Dynasty ruled Germany from 1138-1254.
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The Second Crusade was led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and by King Louis VII of France in 1147
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Third Crusade was led by Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip II of France, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I.
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The Fourth Crusade and the French/Flemish advanced on Constantinople but the Christians fail to recapture Jerusalem in 1200
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The Children's Crusade was led by a French peasant boy named Stephen of Cloyes in 1212
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The Black Death ravages Europe for the first and an estimated one third of the population was thought to have it within the first year in 1348
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Switzerland breaks away from the German empire in 1499
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The Thirty Years War ending with the Peace of Westphalia from 1618 through 1648
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The War of Austrian Succession lasted from 1740 through 1748
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Prussia declared war on France and they were defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806
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The Prussians helped defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig in 1813
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Congress of Vienna establishes the German Confederation of 39 independent German states in 1814 through 1815
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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in 1815
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Franco-Prussian War happened in 1870
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Germany captures Paris in January of 1871
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914
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Germany declares war on Russia and France. The United Kingdom declares war on Germany in August of 1914
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Germany was declared a republic on November 9, 1918
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The Treaty of Versailles ends World War I and the Rhineland was placed under Allied occupation for 15 years on November 11, 1918
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The National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) attempt an unsuccessful armed rebellion led by Adolf Hitler in 1923
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Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as the chancellor and Nazi Germany begin persecuting Jews in 1933
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The Nazi German government is called the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler declared himself der Fuhrer in 1934
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Germany annexes Austria on April 10, 1938
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Germany occupies Czechoslovakia on March 16, 1939
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Germany invades Poland which started World War 2 on September 1, 1939
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide on April 30, 1945
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945
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Germany surrenders on May 7, 1946
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Germany divided into four zones of military occupation. They were the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union. And this happened in June of 1946
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The Allies approve a constitution for western Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and East Germany adopts a Communist-prepared constitution in May of 1949
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The German Democratic Republic was formed (East Germany) in October of 1949
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West Germany obtains independence on May 5 1955
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The Berlin Wall was built in August of 1961
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The Berlin Wall demolished and Communist East Germans were able to travel to the West of Germany on November 9, 1989
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East and West Germany was reunited on October 3, 1990
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The Saxon Dynasty ruled Germany from 919-1024
