Subject:: A Brief History of Germany
> >
> >
> > 1871 - Bismark founds modern Germany.
> > 1890 - Bismark sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control.
> > 1914 - Germany starts World War I
> > 1914-1918 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
> > 1917 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war.
> > 1918 - Germany loses World War I.
> > 1920's - Germans try democracy.
> > 1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power.
> > 1939 - Germany starts World War II.
> > 1939-1945 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
> > 1941 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war.
> > 1945 - Germany loses World War II.
> > 1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions
> > in
> food aid
> > to feed them.
> >
> > 1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives
> billions in
> > Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy.
> >
> > 1948-1949 - America puts ass on line and risks WW3 to save a
> > few
> Berliners
> > from Soviet hordes.
> >
> > 1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established
> > 1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from
> > Soviet
> hordes.
> > 1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America
> > keeps
> watch on
> > Soviet hordes.
> >
> > 1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet hordes.
> > 1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from
> > Soviet
> hordes.
> > 1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American
> > civil
> rights.
> > 1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein
> > Berliner"
> speech.
> > 1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from
> > Soviet
> hordes.
> > 1970's - Germans form the marxist terrorist group Red Army
> > Faction
> (RAF).
> > 1970's - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder
> > much
> of West
> > Germany.
> >
> > 1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany
from
> Soviet
> > hordes.
> >
> > 1980's - German leftists bitch about Pershing II missiles.
> > 1987 - American President Ronald Reagan makes "Mr.
> > Gorbachev,
> tear down
> > this wall" speech.
> >
> > 1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall.
> > 1990 - German Reunification.
> > 1990's - America spends tens of billions to defend Germany
> > from
> Islamic
> > hordes.
> >
> > 1990's - Germany stands by as ethnic cleansing occurs in Balkans.
> > 1993 - Germany joins European Union.
> > 1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the
> sidelines.
> > 1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia.
> > 1998 - Hardline, left-of-left socialists come to power
> > under
> Gerhard
> > Schroeder.
> >
> > 1999 - Americans lead air war to save Kosovo as Germans
> > watch
> from the
> > sidelines.
> >
> > 2001 - Schroeder offers solidarity to America after 9/11 attacks.
> > 2002 - Schroeder bashes America to distract voters during
> > election
> campaign.
> > 2003 - Germany sees rise in anti-Americanism after several
> > decades
> of poor
> > treatment from America.
> >
> >
> >
> > AND YOU THOUGHT THE FRENCH WERE A BUNCH OF UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS?
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