Timeline: Events involving both East and West Germany (jointly)

Question 1

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Answer 1

April 1945

Question 2

Start of the Berlin airlift

Answer 2

June 1948

Question 3

Agreement on the lifting of the Berlin Blockade

Answer 3

May 1949

Question 4

First agreement on the cross border travel between the GDR and the West Berlin Senate

Answer 4

December 1963

Question 5

Meeting between Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Willi Stoph and Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt in Erfurt

Answer 5

March 1970

Question 6

Return visit by Willi Stoph to Kassel

Answer 6

May 1970

Question 7

Signing of transport agreement between the GDR and the FRG

Answer 7

May 1972

Question 8

Signing of the Basic Treaty between the GDR and the FRG

Answer 8

December 1972

Question 9

FRG/GDR become members of the UN

Answer 9

September 1973

Question 10

Visit by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to East Germany

Answer 10

February 1981

Question 11

Economic, monetary and social union enforced between FRG/GDR

Answer 11

July 1990

Question 12

Accession (addition) of the GDR the the FRG

Answer 12

October 1990

Question 13

First all-German elections to the Bundestag; the CDU/CSU and the FDP retain their majority and form the federal government

Answer 13

December 1990

Question 14

The Bundestag decides by 337 to 320 votes to transfer parliament and the government to the capital, Berlin

Answer 14

June 1991

Question 15

Attacks against asylum-seekers in Hoyerswerda in Saxony and in other towns

Answer 15

September 1991

Question 16

EC (European Commission) summit meeting in Maastricht; signing of the treaties on economic and monetary union and political union

Answer 16

December 1991