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After the death on Kaiser Wilhelm I, and his ailing successor of three months Friedrich II in 1888, the young and ambitious [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] became emperor. It was obvious that it was just a matter of time until Bismarck and the young Kaiser would come into conflict. Most notably, the young Kaiser opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy and wanted Germany to pursue colonialist policies, as Great Britain and France had been doing for quite some time, as well as build a navy that could match the British.  Bismarck eventually resigned as chancellor in 1890 when an attempt to establish a working relationship with the Zentrum Party was thwarted by Willem II. After Bismarck's departure Wilhelm II engaged in active colonisation of Africa and Asia for those areas that were not already colonies of other European powers, a mostly uni-lateral approach in Europe with as main ally the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an arms race with Britain, which eventually led to the situation in which the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian crown price could spark off [[World War I]].

After the death on Kaiser Wilhelm I, and his ailing successor of three months Friedrich II in 1888, the young and ambitious [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] became emperor. It was obvious that it was just a matter of time until Bismarck and the young Kaiser would come into conflict. Most notably, the young Kaiser opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy and wanted Germany to pursue colonialist policies, as Great Britain and France had been doing for quite some time, as well as build a navy that could match the British.  Bismarck eventually resigned as chancellor in 1890 when an attempt to establish a working relationship with the Zentrum Party was thwarted by Willem II. After Bismarck's departure Wilhelm II engaged in active colonisation of Africa and Asia for those areas that were not already colonies of other European powers, a mostly uni-lateral approach in Europe with as main ally the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an arms race with Britain, which eventually led to the situation in which the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian crown price could spark off [[World War I]].

===Post WWII History===

===Post WWII History===

Germany has a bicameral system with a federal parliament ("Bundestag") and a representation of the states ("Bundesrat"). The members of Bundestag in elected every four years, using a personalized proportional system. The members of the Bundesrat are representatives of the state governments, and the delegations of each state are required to vote as a bloc on behalf of their governments. Each delegation has between 3 and 6 members, depending on the size of the represented state. The position of president of the Bundesrat rotates on an annual basis between the prime ministers of the states.

Germany has a bicameral system with a federal parliament ("Bundestag") and a representation of the states ("Bundesrat"). The members of Bundestag in elected every four years, using a personalized proportional system. The members of the Bundesrat are representatives of the state governments, and the delegations of each state are required to vote as a bloc on behalf of their governments. Each delegation has between 3 and 6 members, depending on the size of the represented state. The position of president of the Bundesrat rotates on an annual basis between the prime ministers of the states.

==Famous Germans==  

==Famous Germans==

*[[Adolf Hitler]]

*[[Konrad Adenauer]]

*[[Oliver Kahn]]

*[[Hannah Arendt]]

*[[Otto Kretschmer]]

*[[Johann Sebastian Bach]]

*[[Johann Sebastian Bach]]

*[[Pope Benedict XVI]]

*[[Pope Benedict XVI]]

*[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]

*[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]

*[[Albert Einstein]]

*[[Albert Einstein]]

*[[Friedrich Engels]]

*[[Friedrich Engels]]

*[[Georg Friedrich Händel]]

*[[Georg Friedrich Händel]]

*[[Dietrich Buxtehude]]

*[[Otto Hahn]]

*[[Friedrich Händel]]

*[[Ernst August von Hannover]]

*[[Ernst August von Hannover]]

*[[Daniel Fahrenheit]]

*[[Karl August von Hardenberg]]

*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]

*[[Heinrich Hesse]]

*[[Heinrich Himmler]]

*[[Oliver Kahn]]

*[[Henry Kissinger]]

*[[Henry Kissinger]]

*[[Martin Luther]]

*[[Martin Luther]]

*[[Karl Marx]]

*[[Karl Marx]]

*[[Dirk Nowitzki]]

*[[Dirk Nowitzki]]

*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]

*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]

*[[Friedrich Schiller]]

*[[Friedrich Schiller]]

*[[Richard Wagner]]

*[[Richard Wagner]]

*[[Wim Wenders]]

*[[Wim Wenders]]

==War on Terror==

==War on Terror==

==See Also==

==See Also==

[[Freiberg Germany Temple]]

*[[Great Britain]]

*[[Russia]]

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