Germany country studies




Germany country studies Acknowledgments Preface History Early History The Merovingian Dynasty 500-751 The Carolingian Dynasty, 752-911 The Saxon Dynasty, 919-1024 The Salian Dynasty, 1024-1125 The Hohenstaufen Dynasty, 1138-1254 The Empire Under the Early Habsburgs The Protestant Reformation Martin Luther Resistance to Lutheranism The Peace of Augsburg The Thirty Years' War, 1618-48 The Counter-Reformation and Religious Tensions Military Campaigns The Peace of Westphalia The Age of Enlightened Absolutism, 1648-1789 Austria and Prussia The Smaller States The French Revolution and Germany The German Confederation, 1815-66 Economic and Political Trends Toward Unification The Revolutions of 1848 The Restoration Bismarck and Unification Imperial Germany Imperial Germany - Political Parties Imperial Germany - the Economy and Population Growth The Tariff Agreement of 1879 Bismarck's Foreign Policy Foreign Policy in the Wilhelmine Era World War I The Weimar Republic, 1918-33 The Weimar Republic - Problems of Parliamentary Politics The Stresemann Era Hitler and the Rise of National Socialism The Third Reich, 1933-45 The Third Reich - Foreign Policy The Outbreak of World War Ii Total Mobilization, Resistance, and the Holocaust World War 2 - Defeat Postwar Occupation and Division The Nuremberg Trials Political Parties and Democratization The Bizone The Federal Republic of Germany The German Democratic Republic Community of Nations Rearmament and the European Defense Community Social Market Economy Ludwig Erhard and the Grand Coalition The Ulbricht Era, 1949-71 The Ulbricht Era - Consolidation of the New State The Ulbricht Era - Planned Economy The Warsaw Pact and the National People's Army The Berlin Wall The "Socialist State of the German Nation" The Social Democratic-Free Democratic Coalition, 1969-82 Willy Brandt Ostpolitik Helmut Schmidt The Student Movement and Terrorism The Greens Christian Democraticchristian Socialist-Free Democratic Coalition The Honecker Era, 1971-89 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe The New East German Constitution Relations Between the Two Germanys The Peace Movement and Internal Resistance The Last Days of East Germany Opening of the Berlin Wall and Unification Geography North German Lowland Central German Uplands Southern Geography Alpine Foreland and the Alps Drainage Climate The Environment Society Population Population - Historical Background Fertility Age-Gender Distribution Mortality Population Distribution and Urbanization Immigration Ethnic Minorities Women in Society Marriage and Family Housing Religion Postwar Christianity Roman Catholicism Protestantism Free Churches Orthodox Churches Judaism Islam Social Structure and Social Mobility The Elite The Self-Employed Salaried Employees Civil Servants Workers The Poor Social Mobility The Search for a New National Identity Social Welfare, Health Care, and Education Social Insurance and Welfare Programs Provisions of the Social Welfare System Social Insurance Unemployment Insurance Accident Insurance Social Assistance Other Social Benefits National Health Insurance and Medical Care Development of the Health Care System Health Insurance Health Care Providers Remuneration of Health Care Providers Education Educational Policy Making and Administration Educational Finances The Education System Elementary and Primary Education Junior Secondary Education Senior Secondary Education Vocational Education and Training Tertiary or Higher Education Education in the New LEr The Economy Economy - History The Social Market Economy The Economic Miracle and Beyond Economy - Unification and Its Aftermath Economy - Structural and Technological Questions Economy - the Role of Government Land and Local Governments Government Subsidies Labor Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Industry The Bundesbank Banking and Its Role in the Economy Tourism Government and Politics The Constitution Federalism The President The Chancellor and the Cabinet The Legislature The Judiciary The Civil Service The Electoral System Political Parties Christian Democratic Unionchristian Social Union Social Democratic Party Free Democratic Party The Greens The Republikaner and the German People's Union Party of Democratic Socialism Political Developments Since Unification Bibliography

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