the weimar republic was the parliamentary democracy set up after WW1 and ruled from 1919-33.
The failures of the democratic Weimer Republic of Germany added to the destitution of the German people and made Adolf Hitler and his plans for change seem even better to those Germans.
East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or, in German, the Deutsche Democratische Republik) rejoined West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany or, in German, the Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in 1991, having been split into two countries, one communist and the other capitalist, in the aftermath of World War II.
After (not during) WW 1, The the Empire of Austria-Hungary was divided into several smaller countries. After WW 2, the Russians turned the occupied zone in Germany that was under their control into the German Democratic Republic. So after WW 2, Germany became divided into the (western) German Federal Republic and the (Communist) German Democratic Republic, usually called East Germany. Also, the Ottoman Empire was split up into several countries after WW 1, although it must be said that many of those countries had already been autonomous or practically independent for many years before.
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The Weimar Republic was the German democratic government in 1919 after World War I. It lasted to 1933.
East Germany, the former German Democratic Republic, was Communist when it was under Russian control following the end of World War II.
GDR stands for "German Democratic Republic," which was the official name for East Germany from 1949 to 1990. The GDR was a socialist state established in the Soviet occupation zone of post-World War II Germany.
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East Germany was named the German Democratic Republic, ironically, because it was a socialist state.
It was called the Weimar Republic/Government (pronounced Vimar) because Weimar is the place where the constituation was formed.
The failures of the democratic Weimer Republic of Germany added to the destitution of the German people and made Adolf Hitler and his plans for change seem even better to those Germans.
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The German Democratic Republic, known in English as East Germany, was created by the Soviet Union in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the Soviet sector of occupied Berlin in 1949. In 1990 its re-established states joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or, in German, the Deutsche Democratische Republik) rejoined West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany or, in German, the Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in 1991, having been split into two countries, one communist and the other capitalist, in the aftermath of World War II.