FRG CULTURE

Question 1

What happened in 1945 - 49?

Answer 1

.Women played key role in reconstruction
.Guaranteed equal rights for women and minorities.
.1948 divorce rate was 80% higher
.3.8Million refugees moved from GDR to FRG.
.US style high schools.
.De - Nazification programmes imposed by allied powers.

Question 2

What happened in the 1950’s?

Answer 2

.Equal pay act 1955
.Benefits for wives and mothers 1953
.Equal rights law 1958 better rights for women regarding property.
.Dusseldorf agreement imposed more uniformity on German school education.

Question 3

What happened in the 1960’s?

Answer 3

.Agreement with Turkey for guest workers
.One millionth worker welcomed 1964
.Decriminalisation of homosexuality 1969
.1966 - 67 recession goes workers on one year contracts forced to go home
.1968 marked feminist movement beginning.
.Expansion of universities

Question 4

What happened in the 1970’s?

Answer 4

.1973 - 78 oil crises - ban on recruiting goes workers
.1976 Abortion legalised
.1977 No guilt divorce
.1977 equal rights in marriage
.Federal education promotion Act 1971 - provided grants for working class children to go to Universities.

Question 5

What happened in the 1980’s?

Answer 5

.Green Party campaigner for Women’s rights
.National office of women affairs set up
.First feminist magazine set up (EMMA)
.Arrival of asylum seekers.
.Expansion of University education
.40% University students female

Question 6

What did the Constitution say about women?

Answer 6

Weimar - Equality often and women based on equality of principle
FRG - Equality of men and women stated unconditionally that mend women are equal.

Question 7

What where women lives like?

Answer 7

.Basic law delayers absolute equality
.Immigrants made female employment less needed.
.1950’s marriage and family laws rewritten to help working mothers.
.4.4% of West German women were members of a political party.
.1977 granted equal rights in marriage
.female employment went from less then 45% in 1950’s to 50% in the 1970’s.
.Divorce rate rose sharply
.Tax breaks to encourage mothers to stay at home

Question 8

What was the immigration?

Answer 8

.3.5million from GDR
.Signed treaties with Italy and Turkey fo guest workers
.Asylum seekers from Poland and Sri Lanka

Question 9

Who were the guest workers?

Answer 9

.Made creates with; Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey 
.Unskilled low status menial jobs.
.Lived in poorest neighbourhoods.
.Not citizens 
.Separate religions and schools.

Question 10

What was German education like?

Answer 10

.Good equation for middle and upper class Germans.
.School buildings had been damaged by war.
.Due to Nazi policies German children had fallen behind but and many academics had emigrated.
.Many secondary schools were church based.

Question 11

How did the allies reform education?

Answer 11

.British and Americans tried to reform to a more liberal education.
.Blocked by conservatives and lack of coalition between allied powers.
.Free education and text books in American zones by 1948
.Religious education was mandatory under the basic law.

Question 12

What where Brandt’s reforms of education?

Answer 12

.focus on science and technology
.1971 new programme to help disadvantaged children and reform universities not passed.
.Increase in access to universities.
.Higher proportion of girls at school
.only 38% university students female
.Student unions called for more funding for Universities to sort overcrowding and shortage of resources.

Question 13

How was German culture the same?

Answer 13

.Traditional German culture like classical music and folk dancing remained popular.
.Culture was still a force for division and politics

Question 14

How was German culture different?

Answer 14

.More American foreign lifestyles
.Generational tensions due to far left students and moderate older generation.
.More diverse culture due to immigration
.New ideas and music such as Krautrock a electronic kind of music.