German History

Current Chancellor of Germany

Olaf Scholz

Current President of Germany

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Year both West Germany and East Germany were founded

1949

Chieftain of the Cherussi Tribe who led Germanic alliance at Battle of Teutoburg Forest

Arminius

Year East Germany was absorbed by West Germany

1990

Charlemagne crowned “Roman” Emperor by Pope Leo III

800

German Congress

Diet

What did pre-Christian regions believe in?

Thor, Odin, that the horse was sacred, and holy trees

The style of economic rule in Germany in the 1700s

Feudalism

How did Thomas Muntzer die?

In the peasant war

Difference between west and east berlin before the wall fell

west was colorful and Americanized and the east was worn and decrepit

How did the 30 years war start

Defenestration ( Protestant leaders threw Catholic governors out windows)

Zwingli vs. Luther

Zwingli thought communion was a metaphor and Luther didn’t

Calvin vs. Luther

heaven was predestined, Luther thought it was determined by an individual fath.

Roman Emperor at the time of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest

Octavian

Emperor Henry IV goes to Canossa to submit to the pope’s authority

1077

Martin Luther nails 95 theses to church door in Wittenberg

1517

Holy Roman Emperor when Martin Luther nailed his theses to the church door

Charles V

Names of three reformers besides Martin Luther

Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, Thomas Müntzer

Military leader who became supreme commander of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years War

Albrecht von Wallenstein

1618-1649

30 years war

who joined the 30 years war

Sweden

Peace of Augsburg

1555

alternative German native languages

Frisian and Sorbian

what did peace of Westphalia and Augsburg lead to

States being allowed to choose their practiced religion