FRG opposition

Question 1

1960s student opposition

Answer 1

• Student protest against uni education lack of funding and student representation
• Student strike in 1965
• Government announced increased of funding for research

Question 2

…. protested against Vietnam war in 1968

Answer 2

12,000

Question 3

June 1967 - student shot in protests by police lead to

Answer 3

more protests

Question 4

APO

Answer 4

Group of left wing student protesters and radical trade unions.
Strikes , marches.
Not much impact

Question 5

SDS

Answer 5

Student wing of SPD. Mass protests. Controlled student body, increased uni funding.

Question 6

Red Army Faction (left wing extremists)

Answer 6

• Firebombed department store in April 1968
• Kidnapped former Nazis
• Murdered CEO of a big bank
• 1977 - hijacked plane, demanded RAF prisoners set free, failed, 3 prisoners found dead in cells

Question 7

Emergency law introduced in 1968 lead to

Answer 7

Greater powers of arrest and surveillance

Lead to more anti-government movements

Question 8

Government responses to extremism

Answer 8

Anti-Radical Decree 1972 - political vetting for those in state jobs
6000 under surveillance by 1977, 5 mill listed as sympathisers

Question 9

De-Nazification

Answer 9

250,000 Germans had been arrested by 1946.

However, still Nazis in education system, many young Germans angry