To what extent did the SPD play a significant role in West Germany in the years 1949-60?

Question 1

What did Schumacher oppose within Europe?

Answer 1

further integration under NATO

Question 2

Why did Schumacher reject the idea of West European economic integration?

Answer 2

enforce a free market capitalist economy across its member states

Question 3

What did he denounce Adenauer as because of his willingness to work with the Allies?

Answer 3

A puppet of the USA

Question 4

Which headline plan of Adenauer did Schumacher fight against?

Answer 4

FRG military

Question 5

When did Schumacher die?

Answer 5

20th August 1952

Question 6

Who was Schumacher’s opponent?

Answer 6

Enrich Olllenhauer

Question 7

Was Enrich Ollenhauer stronger or weaker than was Schumacher?

Answer 7

Weaker

Question 8

What was the implication of Enrich Ollenhauer’s weakness compared to Schumacher?

Answer 8

The SPD’s vote stayed the same in the 1953 election whilst the CDU’s went up

Question 9

What did the defeat of Enrich Ollenhauer in 1953 lead to?

Answer 9

A revitalisation of the SPD

Question 10

Who was Ollenhauer’s successor?

Answer 10

Willy Brandt

Question 11

What had Brandt previously been?

Answer 11

Mayor of Berlin

Question 12

What did Brandt do?

Answer 12

Push the SPD in a more modern direction, accepting the realities of the FRG

Question 13

What took the SPD away from its Marxist roots and fully endorsed the capitalist market economy?

Answer 13

Bad Godesberg Programme

Question 14

When was the Bad Godesberg Programme?

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

When did the SPD defeat the CDU?

Answer 15

1969

Question 16

When did the SPD and the CDU enter into a coalition?

Answer 16

1966

Question 17

What did the SPD now support thanks to the Bad Godesberg programme?

Answer 17

The party now supported the FRG’s integration with Western Europe and membership of NATO, moving away from its anti-Catholic rhetoric.

Question 18

What did they commit themselves to being under the Bad Godesberg programme?

Answer 18

“The party for the whole people”

Question 19

What did they say that they would be prepared to do under the Bad Godesberg programme?

Answer 19

Form a coalition with the CDU

Question 20

Who backed the reformed SPD under Brandt?

Answer 20

USA under Kennedy

Question 21

Brandt in 1969 was the first SPD chancellor of Germany since when?

Answer 21

1928

Question 22

What was beneficial about the rivalry between Adenauer and Schumacher?

Answer 22

helped to confirm Germany’s ability to enjoy constructive political debate without resorting to the fractious, destabilising model of Weimar

Question 23

Despite their differences, how were the two parties united?

Answer 23

mutual respect for democratic policies and the rejection of extremist parties