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805 matches to German East Africa
German East Africa. 1891 German protectorate. 1919 Tanganyika, Ruanda Urundi.
Ruanda Urundi. Batwa. Bahuta. 14C Watusi. 1897 German East Africa. 1916 Belgium. 1923 League of Nations mandate 1962 Independent. Rwanda, Burundi.
Tanganyika. Bantu. 18C Masai. 18-19C Slave source. 1871 Stanley, Livingstone. German East Africa. 1919 British mandate = Tanganyika. 1946 United Nations Trust. 1961 Independent. 1962 Republic. 1964 +Zanzibar=Tanzania. Nyerere.
Adelung, Johann. 1732-1806. German scholar; helped standardize language.
Adenauer, Konrad. 1876-1967. First chancellor of German Federal Republic., 1949-63. Stabilized postwar Germany.
Admiral Graf Spee. -1939. German battleship def by British, scuttled at Montevideo.
Agadir Crisis. 1911. French/German crisis by German manoevres off Morocco.
Agricola, Johann. 1494-1566. German Protestant reformer and Antinomianist.
Alamein, El, Battles of. 1942. Montgomery defeats Rommel, saving Egypt from Germans.
Alboin. -572. Germanic Lombard King. Allied Germanic tribes and conquered N Italy.
Alemanni. 3-6C. Confederation of Germanic tribes in Swabia defeated by Clovis, 496.
Alsace-Lorraine. Iron rich region along Rhine. 1C BC Rome. 5C Alemanni. 496 Franks. 870 German. 1648(A)/1766(L) French 1871 Prussia. 1919 France 1940 Germany. 1945 France.
Altdorfer, Albrecht. c1480-1538. German founder landscape painting.
Althusius, Johannes. 1557-1638. German jurist. “Father of Federalism”.
Alto Adige. German speaking Tyrol area of Italy 1919-. Granted semi-independence, 1971.
Angles. Germanic tribe that invaded Britain in 6C. Jutes. Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons. Group of Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in 5C. Ruled to 1066. Angles. Heptarchy.
Anglo-Soviet Agreement. 1941. 20 year pledge against Nazi Germany and Axis powers.
Anschluss. Austrian “reunification” with Germany, 1938 by plebiscite-99.75% for.
Anti-Comintern Pact. 1936. Germany and Japan oppose International Communism. Axis.
Anti-Socialist Law. 1878-90. Germans ban unions.
Antonescu, Ion. 1882-1946. Pro-German Romanian dictator, 1938-44.
Arminius. 18BC-19 AD. German chief who defeated Varus 9 AD.
Arnim, Bettina von. 1785-1859. German Romantic writer. Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child 1835.
Astor, John. 1763-1848. German/US fur magnate.