Adenauer's Foreign Policies

Question 1

What were the main foreign policies?

Answer 1

1. Economic integration
2. Political and military integration
3. Ending association/relations with GDR

Question 2

What were Adenauer’s main aims?

Answer 2

1. Maintaining peace and the freedom of the FRG
2. Securing sovereignty of FRG
3. Exploiting economic, political & military strength of West through integration
4. Oppose attempts of reunification with GDR

Question 3

What does GDR stand for

Answer 3

East Germany

Question 4

What is the EEC?

Answer 4

The European Economic Community created in March 1957

Question 5

What did the EEC do?

Answer 5

It was created to harmonise measures of trade and prices

Question 6

How did the EEC help the FRG?

Answer 6

It gave FRG the chance to exert some influence in foreign affairs.

Question 7

What was the ECSC?

Answer 7

The European Coal and Steel Community

Question 8

Why was the ECSC set up?

Answer 8

To ensure there were no restrictions on imports and exports for members of the community. It introduced common policies for prices, subsidies etc…

Question 9

Was the ECSC successful?

Answer 9

Yes, between 1952-7 col and steel increased by 44%

Question 10

How did the Defensive Pact and West European Union help FRG?

Answer 10

They were both expanded to include the FRG and allowed the FRG to have an army.

Question 11

What treaty was signed in 1963?

Answer 11

The French-German Treaty

Question 12

When were the FRG allowed to join NATO?

Answer 12

1955

Question 13

When were the European powers more open accepting the FRG?

Answer 13

After the outbreak of the Chinese Revolution (1949) and the Korean War (1950). It heightened their fear of Communism so the FRG were more accepted

Question 14

How did the FRG become a sovereign state?

Answer 14

When the Occupational Law ended in 1955

Question 15

How did Adenauer and the FRG prevent relations with the GDR?

Answer 15

1. People spoke derisively of GDR
2. Stalin Notes
3. Hallstein Doctrine
4. No official diplomatic relations between the FRG and the GDR
5. Magnet Theory was confirmed after 3 million people fled the GDR to FRG

Question 16

What was Stalin Notes?

Answer 16

The GDR offered a reunification settlement, but it was rejected by the FRG, especially Adenauer.

Question 17

What was the Hallstein Doctrine?

Answer 17

The doctrine stated that Adenauer would refuse to have any relations with countries that acknowledged the GDR. Only Yugoslavia and Cuba broke relations, suggesting the the FRG had managed to successfully establish themselves.

Question 18

What was the Magnet Theory?

Answer 18

The idea that, if the FRG was made politically, economically and socially attractive that East Germany would want to integrate with West Germany. Adenauer also promised to look after refugees in West Germany, but only if they made their own way there.