Germany Divided and Reunited, 1945-91

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Germany unconditionally surrendered
8 May 1945
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Potsdam Conference
July 1945
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FDJ set up (Communist Free German Youth)
March 1946 (headed by Honecker)
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The Law for the Democratisation of German Schools
1946 (remove traces of Nazism from schools)
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SED formed in East Germany (merger between SPD and KDP)
22 April 1946
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Nuremberg Trials
October 1946
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Formation of Bizonia
January 1947
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Truman Doctrine announced
March 1947
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US government announced the Marshall Plan ($13,000 billion, administered by OEEC)
July 1947
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COMECON established (lacked financial muscle of Marshall Plan)
1949
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Currency reform in the Western zones
June 1948
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The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift started
June 1948
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The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift ended
May 1949
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Formation of the FRG under Basic Law
May 1949
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Adenauer became first Chancellor of the FRG
August 1949
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Formation of the GDR
October 1949
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Start of the Korean War
1950
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Signing of the European Coal and Steel (ECSC) Treaty in Paris
1951
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The 'Stalin note'
March 1952
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Death of Stalin
1953
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June uprising in the GDR
1953
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FRG became an independent state
1955
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FRG joined NATO, GDR joined the Warsaw Pact
1955
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Compulsory military service began in the FRG
1955
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Construction of the Berlin Wall began
August 13 1961
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Compulsory military service began in the GDR
1962
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The Spiegel affair
1962
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Adenauer resigned and was succeeded by Erhardt
1963
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Formation of the 'Grand Coalition' between CDU & SPD in FRG
1966
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FRG joined EEC as a founding member
1951
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The Hallstein Doctrine (refused to maintain diplomatic relations)
1955
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Mechanical engineering almost doubled industry
1950-52
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The co-determination law (gave unions representation on company boards)
1951
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Equalisation of Burdens Law (tax levied on rich to finance settlement of 10m guest workers)
1952
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Increase in old-age pensions (linked to wage increases)
1957
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Adenauer agreed to support international control of the Ruhr
1949 (allowed Germany to form diplomatic relations with other countries)
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Paris-Bonn treaties implemented (FRG accepted as independent state)
1955 (secured FRG's independence within 6 years)
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'131 law' (allowed formers Nazis to work in civil service)
1951 (extended to over 150,000 former Nazis)
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The West German Communist Party (KPD) banned in FRG
1956 (banned because they supported June uprising of 1953)
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Adenauer resigned and replaced by Erhardt
1963
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FRG was the second strongest force in NATO with 350,000 soldiers
1961 (half a million in the 1970s)
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SED announced industry & agriculture taken into state ownership
July 1952
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GDR parliament passed a law to set up the Stasi
1950 (links to SED)
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50,000 Stasi employees & 100,000 IM's
late-1960s
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100,000 Stasi employees & 300,000 IM's
mid-1980s
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The New Economic System (NES) implemented in GDR by Ulbricht
1963
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Christmas and New Year passes - 1m West Berliners visited relatives in East Berlin
December 1963
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Old-age pensioners in GDR could visit relatives in FRG
1964
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Brandt SPD Chancellor
1969
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Brandt/Stoph meeting in the GDR
March 1970
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Basic Treaty signed between the GDR and the FRG
1972
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Oil crisis began
1973
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New coalition government led by Kohl (CDY/FDP)
1982
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Treaty of Moscow (FRG & USSR agreed no territorial claims against each other)
1970
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Treaty of Warsaw (FRG agreed to respect Poland's western boarder with GDR)
1970
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The Four-Power Treaty (GDR allowed access from the FRG to West Berlin)
1971 (West Berliners also allowed to visit East Berlin
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The Basic Treaty (FRG & GDR agreed to develop normal relations and recognise each other)
1972 (went against Hallstein Doctrine of 1952)
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GDR and FRG become members of United Nations
1973
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Nazi NPD gained 10% of vote in state elections Bavaria
1968 (right-wing emerged during FRG's economic crisis)
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OPEC trebled the price of oil (response to USA supplying Israel's armed forces with weapons)
1973
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Inflation over 5% in FRG & unemployment reached 3 million
1974
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Further recruitment of foreign workers banned
1973
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Second oil crisis hit
1979-80
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Inflation fell 2% (Kohl cut government spending)
1983
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SDS campaigned against Vietnam War & possession of nuclear weapons
mid-1960s
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SDS student protest in West Berlin - student shot dead by police officer
1967
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'Emergency Laws' passed by Bundestag - gave federal government extra powers with a 2/3 majority
1968
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New federal law banned 'radicals' from public sector employment
1972 (FRG moving in more authoritarian direction)
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West German police listed 5m West Germans as sympathisers/supporters of terrorism
1977 (6000 people under police surveillance)
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Munich Olympics
1972 (members of Israeli team taken hostage)
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The Red Army Faction (RAF)
Active from 1970-93
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'German autumn' - intense period of kidnappings
1977
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Republikaner Party established
1983
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New West German Communist Party (DKP) established
1968
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FRG announced the first Pershing II medium-range nuclear missiles were to be deployed in FRG
1983
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New constitution redefined the GDR as the 'Republic of Workers' & Peasants' State'
1974
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Friendship Treaty between USSR & GDR signed
1975
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Gorbachev became leader of USSR
1985
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Honecker became the first leader of the GDR to visit the FRG
1987
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No longer illegal for GDR citizens to watch West German television
1973
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Improvement in postal service & telephone lines between East & West Berlin
1970s
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GDR doubled currency that Westerners needed to exchange to visit East Berlin
November 1973
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Travel restrictions relaxed in GDR
mid-1980s
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Reforming Hungarian government opened its boarder with Austria
2 May 1989
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Opposition groups in GDR monitored local election results
7 May 1989
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Gorbachev visited East Berlin for the GDR's 40th anniversary celebrations
18 October 1989
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Honecker resigned & replaced by Krenz as General Secretary of SPD
18 October 1989
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Monday demonstrations in Leipzig chanted 'Germany-One Fatherland'
6 November 1989
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Unrestricted travel from GDR to FRG announced & parts of Berlin Wall opened
9 November 1989
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Kohl announced his 'Ten-Point Plan'
28 November 1989
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Constitutional change in GDR ended supreme role of SED
1 December 1989
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Free elections to GDR parliament held
18 March 1990
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Currency union between FRG & GDR
1 July 1990
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USSR agreed to reunited Germany being part of NATO
16 July 1990
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Final Two-plus-Four Treaty signed in Moscow
12 September 1990
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GDR abolished & its territory formally reunited with FRG
3 October 1990
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First post-war all-German election returned Kohl as Chancellor
2 December 1990
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Final dismantling of the Berlin Wall
November 1991
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Potsdam Conference

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July 1945

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FDJ set up (Communist Free German Youth)

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The Law for the Democratisation of German Schools

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Card 5

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SED formed in East Germany (merger between SPD and KDP)

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