Tanks of the post-Cold War period

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Chapters: M1 Abrams, Tanks in the German Army, T-80 models, Type 96, WPB Anders. Excerpt: This article deals with the history of tanks of the German Army from World War I, the Interwar, and the Panzers of German Wehrmacht during the Second World War, and into the Cold War and current tanks. A German Tiger I tank. The development of tanks in World War I began as a solution to the stalemate which trench warfare had brought to the western front. While the British took the lead in tank development, the French were not far behind and fielded their first tanks in 1917. The Germans, on the other hand, were slower to develop tanks, concentrating on anti-tank weapons. The German response to the initial successes of the British tanks forces on the Western Front in 1916 was the A7V tank and like several other tanks of the period, it was based on the American Holt Tractor, which provided the tracks. Despite suffering from many obvious flaws, the German general staff was aware that they did not have time to produce an improved design, and at the end of 1917 ordered 100 but only one third were ever produced, so did not have a great effect before the war ended. German demonstration against the Treaty of Versailles in front of the Reichstag buildingA political event that has to taken into account in the German history is when on 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Although he initially headed a coalition government, he quickly eliminated his government partners and more importantly the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919), between Germany and the Allied Powers. The Nazi Party claimed that through the Treaty, the Weimar Republic¿s liberal democracy, the traitorous ¿November criminals¿ had surrendered Germany's national pride, and explaining the German military failure in World War I. Adolf Hitler pushed rearmament and was approved the development of many German tank designs he was shown. So the Germans began to design and build tanks, that along with the panzer units that operated them, were counted among the most feared