Politics Flashcards

1
Q

When was Yalta

A

Feb 1945

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2
Q

When was Potsdam

A

June 1945

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3
Q

4 things agreed at Potsdam

A

De-Nazification, Demilitarisation, Deindustrialisation & Democratisation

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4
Q

When was Bizonia formed

A

Summer of 1946

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5
Q

When was Trizonia formed

A

April 1949

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6
Q

When did US suspend reparation payments to USSR

A

May 1946

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7
Q

When did a Russian representative walk out of the ACC

A

March 1948

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8
Q

How many tons of supplies were flown in during the airlift

A

2,325,808

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9
Q

When was blockade lifted

A

May 1949

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10
Q

What were the Lander

A

The states

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11
Q

How much legislation was subject to a Bundesrat veto in 1970s

A

50-60%

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12
Q

Powers of federal constitutional court

A

Guarantee civil rights
Arbitrate in any disputes between central gov and Lander

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13
Q

Results of Aug 1949 elections

A

139 seats for CDU/CSU
131 for SPD
78.5% turnout

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14
Q

Construction Law

A

April 1950
Gave grants to Lander and cities to encourage large scale buildings projects

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15
Q

How many new homes for Germans by 1957

A

4 million

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16
Q

Equalisation of Burdens Act

A

1952
Offered compensation to victims of wartime bombing campaigns
DM126 billion raised by 1983

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17
Q

Pensions Act

A

1957
Rise of 60-75% in pensions payments

18
Q

Collective Bargaining Law of Industrial relations

A

1949
Co-determination

19
Q

When did Adenauer want rearmament within FRG

A

1950

20
Q

When did Adenauer gain permission for rearmament

A

1954

21
Q

When was FRG accepted into NATO

A

May 1955

22
Q

How many refugees crossed from GDR to FRG in 1957

A

261,620

23
Q

When was Berlin wall built

A

Aug 1961

24
Q

When were neo-Nazis and KPD banned

A

1952
1956

25
Q

CDU/CSU vote decrease between 1957 and 1961

A

50% to 46%

26
Q

Adenauer retirement

A

Oct 1963

27
Q

SPD vote increase from 1949 to 1957

A

29.2% to 31.8%

28
Q

How much were production figures and wages up in 1964

A

8%
8.5%

29
Q

When did Erhard resign

A

Nov 1966

30
Q

How many seats did NPD gain in 1967

A

48

31
Q

Willy Brandt tenure

A

1969-74

32
Q

When was the Basic Treaty signed

A

June 1973

33
Q

When did Brandt resign

A

May 1974

34
Q

Helmut Schmidt tenure

A

1974-82

35
Q

When did Reichstag approve vote of no confidence to remove Schmidt

A

Oct 1st 1982

36
Q

Helmut Kohl tenure

A

1982-90

37
Q

Max annual budget increase under Kohl

A

3%

38
Q

Flick Affair

A

Flick corporation exempt from tax payments on DM1.8 billion sales of shares
Financial donations made in return of DM500,000

39
Q

Barschel-Engholm affair

A

Barschel forced to resign in October 1989
Found dead 10 days later
Engholm resigned in 1993

40
Q

Peak election turnout

A

91.1% in 1972