Politics

Question 1

When was Yalta

Answer 1

Feb 1945

Question 2

When was Potsdam

Answer 2

June 1945

Question 3

4 things agreed at Potsdam

Answer 3

De-Nazification, Demilitarisation, Deindustrialisation & Democratisation

Question 4

When was Bizonia formed

Answer 4

Summer of 1946

Question 5

When was Trizonia formed

Answer 5

April 1949

Question 6

When did US suspend reparation payments to USSR

Answer 6

May 1946

Question 7

When did a Russian representative walk out of the ACC

Answer 7

March 1948

Question 8

How many tons of supplies were flown in during the airlift

Answer 8

2,325,808

Question 9

When was blockade lifted

Answer 9

May 1949

Question 10

What were the Lander

Answer 10

The states

Question 11

How much legislation was subject to a Bundesrat veto in 1970s

Answer 11

50-60%

Question 12

Powers of federal constitutional court

Answer 12

Guarantee civil rights
Arbitrate in any disputes between central gov and Lander

Question 13

Results of Aug 1949 elections

Answer 13

139 seats for CDU/CSU
131 for SPD
78.5% turnout

Question 14

Construction Law

Answer 14

April 1950
Gave grants to Lander and cities to encourage large scale buildings projects

Question 15

How many new homes for Germans by 1957

Answer 15

4 million

Question 16

Equalisation of Burdens Act

Answer 16

1952
Offered compensation to victims of wartime bombing campaigns
DM126 billion raised by 1983

Question 17

Pensions Act

Answer 17

1957
Rise of 60-75% in pensions payments

Question 18

Collective Bargaining Law of Industrial relations

Answer 18

1949
Co-determination

Question 19

When did Adenauer want rearmament within FRG

Answer 19

1950

Question 20

When did Adenauer gain permission for rearmament

Answer 20

1954

Question 21

When was FRG accepted into NATO

Answer 21

May 1955

Question 22

How many refugees crossed from GDR to FRG in 1957

Answer 22

261,620

Question 23

When was Berlin wall built

Answer 23

Aug 1961

Question 24

When were neo-Nazis and KPD banned

Answer 24

1952
1956

Question 25

CDU/CSU vote decrease between 1957 and 1961

Answer 25

50% to 46%

Question 26

Adenauer retirement

Answer 26

Oct 1963

Question 27

SPD vote increase from 1949 to 1957

Answer 27

29.2% to 31.8%

Question 28

How much were production figures and wages up in 1964

Answer 28

8% 8.5%

Question 29

When did Erhard resign

Answer 29

Nov 1966

Question 30

How many seats did NPD gain in 1967

Answer 30

48

Question 31

Willy Brandt tenure

Answer 31

1969-74

Question 32

When was the Basic Treaty signed

Answer 32

June 1973

Question 33

When did Brandt resign

Answer 33

May 1974

Question 34

Helmut Schmidt tenure

Answer 34

1974-82

Question 35

When did Reichstag approve vote of no confidence to remove Schmidt

Answer 35

Oct 1st 1982

Question 36

Helmut Kohl tenure

Answer 36

1982-90

Question 37

Max annual budget increase under Kohl

Answer 37

3%

Question 38

Flick Affair

Answer 38

Flick corporation exempt from tax payments on DM1.8 billion sales of shares Financial donations made in return of DM500,000

Question 39

Barschel-Engholm affair

Answer 39

Barschel forced to resign in October 1989 Found dead 10 days later Engholm resigned in 1993

Question 40

Peak election turnout

Answer 40

91.1% in 1972