Successes in the FRG

Question 1

Economic Miracle early stages

Answer 1

Industrial production rose
Wages increased by 400% between 1949-63
GNP grew by 8% in the 1950s
Unemployment fell from 8.1% in 1950 to 0.8% in 1965

Question 2

Causes of the economic miracle

Answer 2

Removing price controls
Removing controls over wages and production
Ending inflation through currency reform
Reducing marginal tax rates

Question 3

Events that triggered an economic miracle

Answer 3

Marshall Aid
Korean War
Ludwig Erhard’s ‘Social Market Policy’
Combining government legislation and capitalism

Question 4

Economic Integration

Answer 4

Adenauer made West Germany indispensable to the West
Organisation for Europen Economic Co-operation (OEEC) - Oct 1949
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) -April 1951
Treaty of Rome 1957 established European Economic Community
Joined EURATOM European Atom Energy Community

Question 5

Political Integration

Answer 5

Council of Europe - 1948

Achieved rapprochement with France

Question 6

Military Integration

Answer 6

NATO - FRG Joined in 1955

Question 7

USSR Relations

Answer 7

Adenauer ignored the 1953 East Berlin uprising
Hallstein Doctrine
Negotiated the return of POW’S in 1955 with Russia

Question 8

The Second World War

Answer 8

Women were forced out of work
Refugees from the East were approx 12-13 million
1952 Equalisation of Burdens Act

Question 9

Affluence

Answer 9

430,000 houses were rebuilt by 1952
4 million by 1957
Wages had risen 400% between 1949-63
Social Welfare was available
Pensions could be claimed

Question 10

Reintegration of Former Nazi’s

Answer 10

Nazi Civil servants regained jobs through Law 131

40-80% of Civil Servants were EX-Nazi’s

Question 11

Decline of Adenauer

Answer 11

1959 did not run for president
Withdrawal damaged image and reputation reinforced further by Berlin Wall - 1961
1962 attempted censorship of newspaper
Provoked an outcry due to dictatorship nature