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Alsace-Lorraine in eastern France was contested from 1870-1945.
WWI first began in France, France and Germany hated each other. When Germany became an United Country in 1870-1871 , France went to war to try to stop it. Germany won and France wanted revenge. They started forming alliances and many countries got involved. It was a tragic moment.
They didn't actually take it during the first world war. They captured it just after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.
Germany was fractured into warring Provinces in the Religious Wars of the Protestant Reformation. Protestant and Catholic Provinces were not reunited until Otto Von Bismarck in 1870. He immediately embarked on Wars of Aggrandizement against France 1871, Austria, and against Poland.
Germany was not unified as a country until 1870, but Prussia, the most important and unifying part of Germany, had Otto Von Bismarck becoming Prime Minister in 1862. This position in Prussia was also known as the 'Minister President of Prussia.' Bismarck would later go on to unify Germany through three wars by 1870.
Germany (Prussia) and France declared war on each other in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871.
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France and Germany both doubled during that time period
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The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914.
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The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914
Alsace-Lorraine in eastern France was contested from 1870-1945.
It was built as an 'Act of National Repentance' after France declared, fought and lost the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and it was finished in 1919, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, taken into Germany in 1870, were returned to France.
It was built as an 'Act of National Repentance' after France declared, fought and lost the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and it was finished in 1919, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, taken into Germany in 1870, were returned to France.
France and Germany. Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine from France at the end of the 1870 war. Both provinces became French again in 1918.