Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

* B. Welz, H. Becker-Ross, S. Florek, U. Heitmann ( 2005 ), High-resolution Continuum Source AAS, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, ISBN 3-527-30736-2.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

General John P. Jumper, U. S. Air Forces in Europe commander, escorts President William Jefferson Clinton upon his arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 5, 1999.

In response to suspected biological warfare development in Nazi Germany, the U. S., U. K., and Canada initiated a biological warfare development program in 1941 that resulted in the weaponization of anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxin.

Germany, France, Japan, and Canada have maintained higher savings rates than the U. S. over the long run.

Because of the increasing costs of food imports to avoid mass-starvation in Germany, and with the danger of losing the entire nation to communism, the U. S. government abandoned the Morgenthau plan in September 1946 with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes ' speech Restatement of Policy on Germany.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

* James Francis Byrnes and U. S. Policy towards Germany 1945-1947 Deutsch-Amerikanische Zentrum / James-F .- Byrnes-Institut e. V

In total, Côte d ' Ivoire comprises 322, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, of which 318, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is land and 4, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the U. S. state of New Mexico, or about the size of Germany.

Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U. S. investment ( amongst others ) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.

On November 7, 1956 U. S. Air Force Matador units in West Germany, whose missiles were capable of striking targets in the Warsaw Pact, deployed from their fixed day-to-day sites to unannounced dispersed launch locations.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

* A Battalion in every Kreis ( roughly equivalent to a U. S. county ; there were 920 kreise in Greater Germany )

Holders of PhDs granted in the E. U. can be addressed as " Dr ." in Germany without any further addenda.

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

The Jewish refugees who were interned came from Germany, and the U. S. government didn't differentiate between ethnic Jews and ethnic Germans ( Jewish was defined as religious practice ).

With the later arrival of long range fighters, particularly the P-51, U. S. fighters were able to escort daylight raids far into Germany and establish control of the skies over Western Europe.

* 1917 – World War I: The U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.

Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.

`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.

We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.

`` No, I have no permission to enter Germany '', I told him.

`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

Now I learn I cannot enter Germany.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

Wood took the proposal to Chief of Staff Hugh L. Scott, who passed it on to Baker a month before the actual declaration of war against Germany.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

After the Berlin blockade and airlift, the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1949 declared a purpose `` to mitigate the effects of the present administrative division of Germany and of Berlin ''.

For some time the Communists honored the distinction between the Soviet zone of Germany and the Soviet sector of Berlin by promulgating separately the laws for the two areas.

Then they moved offices of the East German puppet government into East Berlin and began illegally to treat it as the capital of East Germany.

The British and other replies to that Moscow note pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities `` to integrate East Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting to make it the capital of East Germany ''.