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T&W 18
100
This is the official name of West Germany from 1945-1989.
What is the Federal Republic of Germany?
100
Multiple cities have important roles as political and cultural capitals.
What is Germany's polycentric structure?
100
A mix of these two electoral systems is used to elect members of the Bundestag.
What are proportional representation and single-member district?
100
This party was formed by Catholics and Protestants.
What is the Christian Democratic Union?
100
This is the defining concept of German economic policy.
What is the social market economy?
200
This is the official name of East Germany from 1945-1989.
What is the German Democratic Republic?
200
This is commonly referred to as Wirtschaftswunder.
What is Germany's economic miracle in the post-war period?
200
This fear influenced the writers of the Basic Law.
What is a fear of excessive popular participation in politics?
200
This party was historically aligned with the Germany workers movement.
What is the Social Democratic Party?
200
The social market economy is most closely aligned with what American economic school?
What is neoliberalism?
300
These four countries ruled Germany from 1945-1949.
What are the US, France, Great Britain and the USSR?
300
This is the name of Germany's Constitution.
What is the Basic Law?
300
This political party was the first to gain representation in the Bundestag in addition to the "big three" parties.
What is the Green party?
300
This party continues the tradition of German liberalism.
What is the Free Democratic Party?
300
This was the major challenge of the 1990s for the German economy.
What is the integration of East Germany?
400
This is the name of Germany's first experiment with democratic government.
What is the Weimar Republic?
400
Germany's two houses of parliament.
What are the Bundesrat and the Bundestag?
400
This is the unique characteristic of German special interest groups.
What is the focus on influencing the executive rather than the legislature?
400
This political officer signs treaties, receive envoys, signs laws and appoints or dismisses federal judges, civil servants and officers.
What is the president?
400
The presence of these in the civil service has been a challenge to German human rights.
What is extremists?
500
This event was responsible for the destruction of the German middle class and was the final straw in the decline of the Weimar Republic.
What are the economic problems caused by the inflation of 1923 and resulting from the crash of the stock market in 1929?
500
This body sets the agenda for the Bundestag.
What is the Council of Elders?
500
Since 1970, these have been increasing.
What are citizen referendums?
500
This is the highest political office in Germany.
What is the Chancellor?
500
This is the daily double (you're welcome Todd!). You may wager however many points you want. You have to write the the answer to this question down.
What is a Frakitionen?
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