Edexcel History 9. Germany Divided and Reunited

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The first all-German free and fair elections since 1932, returning a CDU-Free Democratic Party coalition, the PDS winning 2.6% of seats

Those GDR products which were notably of far worse quality than those in the FRG, an example being Trabant Cars

The first free GDR elections with multiple parties in which West Germans like Kohl campaigned, with the pro CDU pro-quick reunification Alliance of Germany coalition winning nearly 50% of all seats, the SPD 22%, and the PDS 16.5%

That country the foreign debt of which increased from 2.2bn DM in 1970 to 34.7bn DM in 1987

Leader of the USSR from 1985-91 who instituted policies of Glasnost and Perestroika to ensure the USSR remained a strong and viable state, while also pursuing better relations with the FRG, indicating to the SED that the USSR would no longer favour the GDR

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.

A peoples party, such as the CDU or SPD under the Godesberg Program of 1959, seeking to represent all interest via moderate policies, entering government as part of a grand coalition of the first time in 1966 under Willy Brandt

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

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

Civilian tribunals set up by the British and Americans to conduct hearings of suspected Nazi collaborators, mostly whitewashed along with the Fragebogen by suspects obtaining positive personal testimony and criticised for disproportionately effecting average civilians over serious collaborators

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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

That which arose between West and East Germany after reunification due to West German resentment at higher taxes to regenerate the East, East German reminiscence of job security and social welfare, and continuing East-West inequality

The reduction in factory productivity experienced in the GDR during the refugee crisis as many workers needed for production were leaving the country

The highest court in Germany created under the Basic Law, to protect the Constitution, settle disputes between the federal government and Länder, and reduce the possibility of extremist parties gaining power

The country which Adenauer pushed for closer relations and ties with, seeing it as crucial for stability, peace, and prosperity in Europe

Those two conferences at which it was agreed Germany would be split from Austria, the two and Berlin being divided into four temporary occupation zones under a central Allied Control Commission responsible for governing, demilitarising, denazifying, decartelising, and democratising the country, chronologically

The December 1989 rebranding of the SED, abandoning Marxism-Leninism having rescinded the clause of the constitution defining the GDR as a socialist state under SED leadership on the 1st, ending the party's domination and seeing Egon Krenz and the Politburo resign

That country the principal problems in which by 1989 were that it had a low standing of living compared to the FRG (though the highest in the East), economic inequality particularly between the general public and government and Stasi members, and economic problems causing low investment and falling real wages

The charismatic 'right-wing' SPD mayor of West Berlin who helped revitalise the party and unite it around the Godesberg Program in 1959, though not becoming leader until 1964

That election in the GDR after which a CDU, SPD, League of Free Democrats coalition formed a government, while a subsequent introduction at a 1:1 exchange rate of the FRG currency and inflow of FRG goods saw the GDR economy completely collapse