FRG - Timeline Flashcards
(40 cards)
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Postdam Conference
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- August - 1945
- Germany divided into 4 zones
- reparations payed through occupation of industry and military equipment instead of money
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October 1946 - Elections
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- Communists win in the soviet zone
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Nuremberg Trials
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- 1946
- International war crime trials
- 21 defendants went on trial
- Himmler, Goering
- 19 Found guilty
- Punishment death or in some cases 15 years in prison
4
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Arresting nazi’s
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- 1946
- denazification
- 250,000 arrested
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Marshall Plan
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- 1947
- Provide supplies
- Provide money ($1.4 billion)
- Helped with Recovery
6
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Bizonia
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- May 1947
- USA, Britain unify there zones in west Germany to form Bizonia
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Bank of German States
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- 1948
- Administers the Marshall Plan
- Created a single economic unit in Western Zones.
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Erhard appointed
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- 1948
- Ludwig Erhard appointed as minister of economic affairs
- Catalyst for German Recovery
9
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Trizonia
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- June 1948
- French join zones with GB and US to create Trizonia
10
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Deutschmark
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- June 1948
- Introduced by Ludwig Erhardt
- People lost 400 Billion in Savings
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End of Rationing
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- June 1948
- Erhard Economic reform
- Ends all forms of rationing
12
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FRG established
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- May 1949
- The FRG is established
13
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Basic Law signed
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- May 1949
- Equal Rights
- Free Speech
- Free education
- Parties that undermined democracy can be banned
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Adenauer Elected
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- Sep 1949
- Adenauer elected chancellor of the FRG
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Korean War
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1950
- FRG’s industrial goods are in greater demand ( The USA)
- Shifted to war production
- Gave 16 million Germans a Job
- Leading to a record low of unemployment 0.7%
16
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Article 131
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- May 1951
- Article 131 is added to basic law
- Allowing ex- Nazis to work in the civil service part of the year zero policy
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FRG join the council of Europe
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- 1951
- A council to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law
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FRG join the European coal and steel community
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- 1951
- FRG join the European coal and steel community
- Setting up trade links with France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luzemborg
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FRG join the International Monetary fund
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- 1952
- The fund oversees the stability of the world currencies so for them the Deutschmark
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Equalisation of Burdens act
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- 1952
- Redistributes wealth from the well of to provide for those who lost during the war
21
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Ministry for Family affairs
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- 1953
- Provides wives and mothers with financial benefits
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Guest workers
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- 1955
- Also know as Gastarbeiter
- Men came in from prominently Turkey to rebuild after the war
- Italy had 165,000 guest workers who came to the country
23
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Joining Nato
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- 1955
- United against communism
- The allies withdrew from the FRG making it self governing
24
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Re-arming
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- The FRG begins to re arm starts producing war material
- Sets up there new army which does accept Ex Nazi’s
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Founding the EEC
- European Economic community is founded 1957
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Anger towards year zero
- 1960
- Young people grow increasingly angry at year zero and dont believe that denazification was strong enough
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Berlin wall built
- Aug 1961
- Split east and west Berlin seperated
- FRG uses labour force allowing a further influx of guest workers
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Speigel affair
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Franco German Friendship treaty
- 1963
- Adenauer and the French PM sign the treaty
- Having a clean slate with eachother after elongated longevity
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Adenauer resigns and Erhard new chancellor
1963
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Recession
1966
- Trade declines
- Unemployment increases
- Fewer guest workers who are pivotal for economic growth
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Erhard resigns
- 1966
- Kiesinger becomes chancellor
- willy brandt acts as vice chancellor and foreign minister
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Economic stabilisation Law
- 1967
- Allows for the government intervention in times of economic crisis to control spending
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New emergency Powers
- June 1968
- Grand coalition amends the constitution to introduce new emergency powers for the government
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Brandt becomes chancellor
1969
- Pursues the policy of Ostpolitik (Trying to rebuild relations with the east)
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Anti Radical ban decree
- 1972 bans anyone associated to an extremist org from working in public sector
- In reaction to the red army faction (Communists) Robbing banks months earlier
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RAF Bombings
- 1972
- RAF bomb the US Army headquarters, police stations
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Black september Attacks
- 1972
- Massacre at the Berlin Olympics in Munich as Isreali athletes are captured
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Oil Crisis
- 1973
- Fuel consumption restricted
- Sale of Fuel cans banned
- Driving free sunday
- Restrictions by Arab countries lead to these
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