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FRG - Timeline Flashcards

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Postdam Conference

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  • August - 1945
  • Germany divided into 4 zones
  • reparations payed through occupation of industry and military equipment instead of money
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October 1946 - Elections

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  • Communists win in the soviet zone
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Nuremberg Trials

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  • 1946
  • International war crime trials
  • 21 defendants went on trial
  • Himmler, Goering
  • 19 Found guilty
  • Punishment death or in some cases 15 years in prison
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Arresting nazi’s

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  • 1946
  • denazification
  • 250,000 arrested
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Marshall Plan

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  • 1947
  • Provide supplies
  • Provide money ($1.4 billion)
  • Helped with Recovery
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Bizonia

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  • May 1947
  • USA, Britain unify there zones in west Germany to form Bizonia
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Bank of German States

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  • 1948
  • Administers the Marshall Plan
  • Created a single economic unit in Western Zones.
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Erhard appointed

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  • 1948
  • Ludwig Erhard appointed as minister of economic affairs
  • Catalyst for German Recovery
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Trizonia

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  • June 1948
  • French join zones with GB and US to create Trizonia
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Deutschmark

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  • June 1948
  • Introduced by Ludwig Erhardt
  • People lost 400 Billion in Savings
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End of Rationing

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  • June 1948
  • Erhard Economic reform
  • Ends all forms of rationing
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FRG established

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  • May 1949
  • The FRG is established
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Basic Law signed

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  • May 1949
  • Equal Rights
  • Free Speech
  • Free education
  • Parties that undermined democracy can be banned
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Adenauer Elected

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  • Sep 1949
  • Adenauer elected chancellor of the FRG
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Korean War

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1950
- FRG’s industrial goods are in greater demand ( The USA)
- Shifted to war production
- Gave 16 million Germans a Job
- Leading to a record low of unemployment 0.7%

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Article 131

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  • May 1951
  • Article 131 is added to basic law
  • Allowing ex- Nazis to work in the civil service part of the year zero policy
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FRG join the council of Europe

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  • 1951
  • A council to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law
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FRG join the European coal and steel community

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  • 1951
  • FRG join the European coal and steel community
  • Setting up trade links with France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luzemborg
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FRG join the International Monetary fund

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  • 1952
  • The fund oversees the stability of the world currencies so for them the Deutschmark
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Equalisation of Burdens act

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  • 1952
  • Redistributes wealth from the well of to provide for those who lost during the war
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Ministry for Family affairs

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  • 1953
  • Provides wives and mothers with financial benefits
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Guest workers

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  • 1955
  • Also know as Gastarbeiter
  • Men came in from prominently Turkey to rebuild after the war
  • Italy had 165,000 guest workers who came to the country
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Joining Nato

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  • 1955
  • United against communism
  • The allies withdrew from the FRG making it self governing
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Re-arming

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  • The FRG begins to re arm starts producing war material
  • Sets up there new army which does accept Ex Nazi’s
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Founding the EEC

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  • European Economic community is founded 1957
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Anger towards year zero

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  • 1960
  • Young people grow increasingly angry at year zero and dont believe that denazification was strong enough
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Berlin wall built

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  • Aug 1961
  • Split east and west Berlin seperated
  • FRG uses labour force allowing a further influx of guest workers
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Speigel affair

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Franco German Friendship treaty

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  • 1963
  • Adenauer and the French PM sign the treaty
  • Having a clean slate with eachother after elongated longevity
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Adenauer resigns and Erhard new chancellor

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1963

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Recession

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1966
- Trade declines
- Unemployment increases
- Fewer guest workers who are pivotal for economic growth

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Erhard resigns

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  • 1966
  • Kiesinger becomes chancellor
  • willy brandt acts as vice chancellor and foreign minister
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Economic stabilisation Law

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  • 1967
  • Allows for the government intervention in times of economic crisis to control spending
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New emergency Powers

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  • June 1968
  • Grand coalition amends the constitution to introduce new emergency powers for the government
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Brandt becomes chancellor

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1969
- Pursues the policy of Ostpolitik (Trying to rebuild relations with the east)

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Anti Radical ban decree

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  • 1972 bans anyone associated to an extremist org from working in public sector
  • In reaction to the red army faction (Communists) Robbing banks months earlier
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RAF Bombings

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  • 1972
  • RAF bomb the US Army headquarters, police stations
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Black september Attacks

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  • 1972
  • Massacre at the Berlin Olympics in Munich as Isreali athletes are captured
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Oil Crisis

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  • 1973
  • Fuel consumption restricted
  • Sale of Fuel cans banned
  • Driving free sunday
  • Restrictions by Arab countries lead to these
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