To what extent can Adenauer be viewed to be the father of the FRG?

Question 1

What are the four points that support Adenauer as the father of the FRG?

Answer 1

1) Economy
2) Politics
3) De-nazification
4) Military

Question 2

What are the four points that do not support Adenauer as the father of the FRG?

Answer 2

1) Legacy of WW2
2) Other key figure
3) Weakness of Schumacher
4) Allies

Question 3

What kind of economy did Adenauer pursue?

Answer 3

Social market economy

Question 4

How much Marshall aid was given to the FRG?

Answer 4

$1.3 billion

Question 5

Why was so much Marshall aid given to the FRG?

Answer 5

On the frontier with communism

Question 6

When did Adenauer join the EEC?

Answer 6

1957

Question 7

Where did Adenauer believe the success of the FRG to lie?

Answer 7

Improved international co-operation

Question 8

When was Adenauer in office?

Answer 8

1949-63

Question 9

What international treaty came as a result of much negotiation from Adenauer?

Answer 9

German / General treaty

Question 10

When was the German / General treaty?

Answer 10

5th May 1955

Question 11

What did the German treaty do?

Answer 11

Allow FRG regained all control of their foreign policy, within NATO.

Question 12

Who did Adenauer get to make big compromises in order to get the German treaty?

Answer 12

France

Question 13

What committee was Adenauer on?

Answer 13

The committee that wrote the 1848 new german constitution

Question 14

What agreement meant that Germany had to maintain demilitarisation?

Answer 14

Petersberg Treaty

Question 15

When was the Petersberg treaty?

Answer 15

22nd November 1949

Question 16

What event allowed Adenauer to call for a new German Army?

Answer 16

1950 Korean war

Question 17

Adenauer called for an army of how many following the Korean war?

Answer 17

150 000

Question 18

What fear did Adenauer play on in order to gain an FRG arm?

Answer 18

Repeat of Versailles amongst the allies

Question 19

What demonstrates the strong support and mandate that Adenauer had for a new army?

Answer 19

CDU won 45.2% of the vote in 1953, 14% more than in 1949

Question 20

What percentage of the vote did the CDU win in 1953?

Answer 20

45.2%

Question 21

What policy did Adenauer pursue to anul the allies’ punishment of Nazi supporters?

Answer 21

Vergangenheitspolitik

Question 22

When was the first amnesty law?

Answer 22

May 1951

Question 23

When was the second amnesty law?

Answer 23

1954

Question 24

What did the first amnesty law do?

Answer 24

benefited 800 000 Germans previously classed as Nazi Criminals and allowed 150 000 German officials previously removed from government positions to return to administration.

Question 25

What Nazi official did Adenauer included in his cabinet, showing his conciliation with Nazis?

Answer 25

Hans Globke

Question 26

When did Hans Globke work in Adenauer’s cabinet?

Answer 26

1953-63

Question 27

What did the 1954 second amnesty law do?

Answer 27

exonerated 400 000 people declared Nazi criminals by the British

Question 28

What policy gave reparations to victims of the Nazis such as Holocaust survivors?

Answer 28

Wiedergutmachung

Question 29

What conference divided up Germany?

Answer 29

Yalta February 1945

Question 30

Until when did Allied forces remain in Germany?

Answer 30

1955

Question 31

How did the Allies see Marshall Aid?

Answer 31

A tool to ensure a successful capitalist trading partner in the future

Question 32

What direction did Schumacher push the SPD in?

Answer 32

Socialist

Question 33

What kind of economy did the SPD propose that was at odds with the successful economy that Adenauer had created until 1949?

Answer 33

planned economy that was controlled by central government

Question 34

What did Schumacher’s pursuit of a planned economy mean for Adenauer?

Answer 34

He could portray Schumacher as a communist

Question 35

What minster did Adenauer rely on for the Economic minister?

Answer 35

Economics minster Erhard

Question 36

What about the system of the FRG meant that Adenauer cannot take all the credit for its success?

Answer 36

It was a liberal democracy

Question 37

What circumstance facilitated much of Adenauer’s success and underpinned much of his rhetoric?

Answer 37

Germany was on the frontier of East and West. It meant that the Communist threat was exceptionally tangible in Germany.