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German Post-War History
How much do you know about the history of Germany after World War 2?
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Last updated: December 28, 2019
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1. Which year is often remembered as the one that started a process of openly dealing with the Nazi era?
Student protests took place in many countries that year, and they were often directed against conservative parents. The German youth had a special reason.
1992
1949
1968
2015
2. Which decision made by Willy Brandt in 1971 met fierce opposition?
Initially, reunification was understood as including parts of the former empire which were lost after WW2. Many conservatives considered Brandt a traitor. However, this is not an issue in modern politics.
Rebuilding an army
Renouncing land claims in Poland
Utilizing nuclear energy
3. Chancellor Schröder refused to join the United States in which war?
Strangely, German Shepherds were not renamed Freedom Shepherds in the US.
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Kosovo
Iraq (2003)
4. Which initiative greatly helped Germany recover from World War 2?
McArthur Plan
Eisenhower Plan
Patton Plan
Marshall Plan
5. What was West Germany's capital?
Aachen
Frankfurt
West Berlin
Bonn
6. What kind of "miracle" happened during the 1950s?
Military
Diplomatic
Economic
Cultural
7. Who said that he was a Berliner (or a jelly doughnut, depending on what you want to hear)?
John F. Kennedy
Mikhail Gorbachev
Charles de Gaulle
Ronald Reagan
8. Which fact about third chancellor Kurt-Georg Kiesinger is true?
Kiesinger joined enthusiastically in 1933, although he was later denounced as a "hamperer of actions against the Jews" by his colleagues.
He was assassinated.
He used to be a member of the Nazi party.
He later became UN general secretary.
9. Why did chancellor Willy Brandt fall to his knees?
He apologised for WW2 crimes
He was looking for coins on the ground
He had a heart attack during a speech
10. What happened during the Munich Summer Olympics in 1972?
East and West Germany almost went to war
Palestine terrorists killed Israeli athletes
It was interrupted by student riots
11. West Germany was plagued by the RAF in the 1970s. What was it?
the name for ongoing war reparations
a far-left terrorist group
a series of censorship legislations
12. What was the Stasi?
the East German secret police
the denazification program
the name of allied-occupied Berlin
13. Who were Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Christa Wolf?
Philosophers
Journalists
Writers
Politicians
14. What did president Richard von Weizsäcker define May 8, 1945 in a 40th anniversary speech?
A Day of Humiliation
A Day of Liberation
A Day of Glory
A Day of Defeat
15. Which region has been known for its increased neo-Nazi activity since at least the 1990s?
Berlin
the Ruhr Area
Bavaria
Eastern Germany (the former GDR)
16. Facing German reunification, which foreign leader said: "We defeated the Germans twice! And now they're back!"
The others were less skeptic. Bush strongly supported the process.
George H.W. Bush
Margaret Thatcher
Mikhail Gorbachev
François Mitterand
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