Edexcel History 9. Germany Divided and Reunited

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Laws by Adenauer granting amnesty to 150,000 previously dismissed officials with Nazi connections and later annulling British denazification processes so as to secure talent, stability, and right-wing support crucial for coalitions, despite protests from the SPD

Leader of the GDR from 1971 to 1989 who increased oppression against change, being a fierce opponent of Gorbachev's reforms (using propaganda to attack him), emphasising the GDR's position as the strongest economy in the Eastern Bloc

That of the GDR with collapsed in the Summer of 1990 against newly affordable western goods (due to the 1:1 exchange rate), with farmers unable to compete with the FRG and EEC and unemployment reaching 20%, making speedy reunification necessary

A term used to describe the reduction in tensions between the USA and USSR following the FRG's Moscow Treaty in 1970 and the 1971 Four Powers Agreement reconfirming the rights and responsibilities of the Four Powers in Berlin

A series of thirteen war crimes trials conducted by the Allies to try and convict Nazis, 22 being tried in the first trial of whom half were executed

He whose priority was economic and political integration, as opposed to Kurt Schumacher who prioritised German reunification

The percentage of high level foreign-office diplomats which were former Nazis in 1952

East German nostalgia for old GDR goods and services such as Trabant tours of Berlin

That the legal justification for which was that the GDR was under Soviet control and thus did not meet the level of statehood, while acceptance of the GDR would constitute acceptance of German division, perhaps in perpetuity, a violation of the Constitution and General Treaty

A neo-Nazi party banned in 1952, a month before the FRG agreed to pay 3 billion marks compensation to Israel for the Holocaust

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The ruling party the GDR formed by the forced merger of the East German wings of the SPD and KPD

An extensive questionnaire devised by British though mostly American occupying forces to determine which Germans had been associated with the Nazis, eventually required of all Germans applying for work, ration cards, etc.

Those, many of whom agreed to cooperate with Adenauer in promoting FRG democracy out of their shared fear of communism

Those three countries which did not intervene to save the GDR despite their opposition to German reunification due to being either politically or economically unable to provide the vast loans necessary

A November 1989 plan issued by Helmut Kohl (partly to improve the CDU's dismal polling performance) without consulting the FRG's allies or his ministers, to achieve stable and peaceful long-lasting German reunification

Those types of parties that have gained a foothold in eastern Germany since reunification due in part to being accustomed to strong central authority and resenting large foreign worker population brought in by the government, many Turkish

A legally binding treaty between the FRG and Western Allies in 1955 which mostly restored sovereignty to the FRG as the only legal successor of the German Reich

The communist country formed in 1949 out of the easternmost part of Germany, constituting the former Soviet occupation zone

That organisation German membership of which was a prerequisite of the US accepting German reunification

The democracy formed in 1949 out of the West and South of Germany, constituting the former British, American, and French occupation zones