WEST GERMANY 1949-1963

Question 1

Basic Law President safeguard

Answer 1

Decreased power- 1 term went from 7 to 5 years

Had to be elected by an assembly

Question 2

Basic Law voting system

Answer 2

Mixed member proportional representation

Question 3

5% hurdle introduced…

Answer 3

1953

Question 4

Adenauer economic hurdles

Answer 4

Recession- 1949-50 unemployment was at 13% or 2 mil

Question 5

Adenauer social problems

Answer 5

Bombing- needed to rebuild houses asf

Question 6

Adenauer political problems

Answer 6

FRG still under allied control smh

Question 7

1949 improved democratic participation?

Answer 7

78.5%

Question 8

‘Magnet theory’

Answer 8

Adenauer wanted East Germans attracted to the FRG- this worked: 3 million refugees

Question 9

Adenauer- ‘the German question’

Answer 9

Wanted reunification only on Western capitalist terms

Question 10

Which war helped the FRG economy boom?

Answer 10

The Korean War (1950-1953)

Question 11

Social market economy

Answer 11

Rising consumption and economic growth- aimed to combine polictial and economic freedom with social justice

Question 12

GNP 1950-1955

Answer 12

GNP doubled

Question 13

1954 FRG trade position?

Answer 13

3rd biggest trading power in Europe

Question 14

OEEC helped to

Answer 14

Speed up German trade re-intergration

Question 15

Inherited advantages (2)

Answer 15

Marshall Aid

Natural resources from Ruhr (coal, iron)

Question 16

NATO (?)

Answer 16

1955

Question 17

Equalisation of Burdens Act (1952)

Answer 17

Property levy- aimed to help those who lost from the war

Question 18

Law 131

Answer 18

Restored the employment and pension rights of civil servants

Question 19

German Federation of Trade Unions

Answer 19

Reduced no. of strikes significantly

Co-determination Law 1951

Question 20

Pensions raised to…

Answer 20

60%

Question 21

Education problems (3)

Answer 21

Lack of school buildings
Shortage of teaching material
Large classes

Question 22

Womens rights

Answer 22

1957 Law for the Equalisation of the Sexes

Question 23

Womens wages

Answer 23

Still 40% below men

Question 24

1949 Petersburg Agreement

Answer 24

Allowed FRG to join the International Ruhr Authority

Question 25

ECSC

Answer 25

European Coal and Steel Committee

Question 26

Impact of EEC

Answer 26

Increased coal and steel production by 44% by 1952

Question 27

Der Speigel Affair

Answer 27

Minister of Defence Strauss exposed for public treason

Question 28

TV dispute

Answer 28

Legal dispute over a channel owned by Adenauer