Federal Republic - OCC

Question 1

What were bigger issues than political dissent and challenge in FRG?

Answer 1

• Rebuilding the government and working together in useful coalitions
• Building a sense of identity while leaving room for reunification with East Germany
• Rebuilding the economy and physically rebuilding the country
• Establishing the FRG as a member of Europe

Question 2

What moves of Adenauer did the SDP argue against?

Answer 2

Year zero and his desire to align the FRG with europe

Question 3

On what basis did the government use the Basic Law to say which political parties could exist?

Answer 3

As long as they did not threaten the constitution or principles of democracy. They used this to ban the Socialist Reich party

Question 4

In which ways did youth protest show itself in the FRG?

Answer 4

• They objected to the year zero principle
• They protested against the FRG military for NATO
• Discontent over USA and Vietnam war

Question 5

What does the APO stand for?

Answer 5

The Ausserparliamentarische Opposition
(Extra Parliamentary Opposition)

Question 6

Why did the APO come about?

Answer 6

Distrust of young intellectuals for the established conservative government and because there were no left wing parties to absorb them after the KPD was banned. Also the SPD were less radical from 1959

Question 7

What does the SDS stand for?

Answer 7

German Socialist Student Union

Question 8

Why did the SDS form?

Answer 8

It was part of the SPD but broke away in 1961 due to it becoming less radical

Question 9

What did the SDS protest against?

Answer 9

• Vietnam war and Nuclear weapons
• Former Nazis holding office in government
• NATO

Question 10

In which SDS demonstrations was Benno Ohnesorg shot?

Answer 10

1967 demonstrations against the human rights record of Iran during a visit from its Shah. conflict with the police escalated resulting in the shooting

Question 11

Which of the SDS protesters said after the Benno Ohnesorg shooting that violence was the only way to answer violence and why did he say this?

Answer 11

Gudrun Ensslin because he believed there was no arguing with the Auschwitz generation

Question 12

When was Rudi Dutschke shot and by who?

Answer 12

April 1968, by a right-wing fanatic who read criticisms of student protests

Question 13

What was the last major SDS protest?

Answer 13

11th May 1968 in Bonn against the Emergency Law and 80,000 people from many different groups

Question 14

What was the most long lived terrorist groups?

Answer 14

Baader-Meinhof gang, calling itself the RAF, Red army faction

Question 15

How did the public feel about terrorist groups in the early 1970s?

Answer 15

They felt sympathy and 5% would let a member of the group stay in their house for a night if they were on the run

Question 16

How did the government of the FRG react to political extremism?

Answer 16

They wanted democracy but didn’t want this overthrown and ended up coming down more heavily on left wing extremists like Weimar did.

Question 17

Which organisations were set up between 1949 and 89 to control political extremism?

Answer 17

BfV and BND to investigate people they suspected of working against the Basic Law

Question 18

BfV

Answer 18

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz set up in 1950

Question 19

BND

Answer 19

Bundesnachrichtendienst set up in 1956

Question 20

What was the difference between the BfV and the BND?

Answer 20

The BfV worked only inside Germany and reported to the minister of the interior whereas the BND reported directly to the chancellor and it conducted investigations abroad and in germany

Question 21

What was the difference between the BfV and the BND?

Answer 21

The BfV worked only inside Germany and reported to the minister of the interior whereas the BND reported directly to the chancellor and it conducted investigations abroad and in germany

Question 22

How were the BND and the BfV hampered?

Answer 22

By civil liberties granted to people under the basic law

Question 23

Which civil liberties hampered the functioning of the BfV and the BND?

Answer 23

they couldn’t open mail, search homes or monitor phone calls u

Question 24

When was the Emergency Law passed and what impact did this have?

Answer 24

In 1986 as protests by students, unions and other groups became more violent, It had the impact of a drop in the number of open protests. Some groups decided that underground opposition was the only way. (Terrorism)

Question 25

Which event led to the setting up of GSG-9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)

Answer 25

The shooting of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972

Question 26

How much was the Berufsverbot (employment ban) used?

Answer 26

Seldomly, less than 100 people lost their jobs between 1950 and 1972

Question 27

How much support was there for democracy between 1949 and 1989?

Answer 27

Significant levels of support for democracy with a high turnout of people participating in the democratic process of elections. Usually over 85% turnout

Question 28

How else did people in the FRG show their support for democracy?

Answer 28

• People demonstrated against changes the government wanted to make that would restrict
  democracy
• They marched in support of democracy against repressive regimes in other countries
• Protested against the shift to Ostpolitik due to the repressive communist remind there