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Spa Conference (29 September 1918)
The Spa conference of September 29, 1918 is the last important conference between the main political and military leaders of the German Empire, Reich,Between 1871 and 1945, the official name of the German state was Deutsches Reich. then engaged in the World War I, First World War. Held in the last weeks of the conflict, it is intended to draw the political and military conclusions of the Armistice of Salonica, Bulgarian defection. Indeed, after the failures encountered by the Central Powers, central powers in Second Battle of the Piave River, Italy and on the Western Front, the leaders of the Reich can only acknowledge the strategic impasse in which they have found themselves since the month of August 1918. The Battle of Doiran (1918), Allied successes against the Bulgarians, followed by the Armistice of Salonica, withdrawal of Bulgaria and the Liberation of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro (1918), rapid Allied rise towards the Danube, forced those responsible for the Central Powers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich; . from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the German revolution of 1918–1919, November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a Weimar Republic, republic. The German Empire consisted of States of the German Empire, 25 states, each with its own nobility: four constituent Monarchy, kingdoms, six Grand duchy, grand duchies, five Duchy, duchies (six before 1876), seven Principality, principalities, three Free imperial city, free Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City-state, cities, and Alsace–Lorraine, one imperial territory. While Prussia was one of four kingdoms in the realm, it contained about two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
