Germany KQ5 Flashcards
What was the FRG?
The FRG was the west side of Germany controlled by Britain USA and France, joined together in 1949
Federal Republic of Germany
What was the GDR?
The democratic republic of Germany was the soviet controlled eastern side of Germany, very little freedom
What was the federal parliament like?
In Bonn, the west German capital, 11 lander regions represented in the Bundesrat, in the Bundestag they were voted by people
Chancellor had more power than in reichstag
What were the policies of the GDR?
Communist-one party state (not democratic) east Berlin capital 40,000 were killed in concentration camps 1\3of everyone who was in them and
How did Adenauer and nato help the “economic miracle”?
Adenauer- restoring economy increases independence and democracy
NATO defence organisation, improved foreign relations
What did Erhard do?
The economic minister Ludwig erhard
Used Marshall aid for old oil industries and new hi-tech machinery
Investment and research
Strong central bank and new currency
Huge demand for goods due to the Korean War
What did the Stasi do?
They were the East German secret police they made people spy on neighbours and they had 180km of records which survived they used a tape recorder for spying
24% of people living their were informers for the stasi
What did east Germany do which was similar to the nazis?
They paid women to have children?
What happened industrially to the east?
they had 20% the production of the west, children were inventors, the best workers moved to the west with 35 million others from 1949-61
What was the first economy group west Germany joined?
The OEEC
The organisation for european economic control
Adenauer wanted a United europe
Had organised the Marshall Plan
What was the only organisation of the three that didn’t have two Es?
The ECSC or European coal and steel community included countries such as Italy, France and Luxembourg
151% increase of steel production
What became the EU?
The EEC or European economic community was formed based on the success of the ECSC
Results of erhard’s policies
Highest annual growth rate in Western Europe
Full employment and +600% production from 1949-64
VW beetle produced at a pride affordable to Germans and foreign buyers
Life in east Germany
People managed to watch west German tv although the government tried to stop them
Workers striked, including June 1953, many arrested, 125 killed
20% of goods production of West
East Germany politics
Socialist Unity Party led by Walter Ulbricht led a one party state
Regular elections for the parliament, Volkskammer and they always won 99% of the votes
Politburg (central committee) made decisions
14 districts known as Bezirke
