Vocab
Political movements dedicated to the environmental concerns, they grew very powerful in Western Europe in the 1980s, especially West Germany. Tended to be anti nuclear power and pacifist
Green Movements
Which leader was against splitting Germany permanently in two?
Stalin
This plan helped to restore West Germany and rebuild it as a new ally in America's fight against Russia.
Marshall Plan
What was built in the year of 1961?
The Berlin Wall
A communist state formed in 1949 out of the Soviet zone. It was reunified with West Germany in 1991.
East Germany
German democratic republic or east germany
GDR
Who made the famous, “Tear Down This Wall” speech?
Ronald Reagan
In 1949 the Allies made good on what they promised in the Truman Doctrine and unified West Germany into the BDR (Federal Republic of Germany).
Truman Doctrine
What occurred June 4th – November 9th 1961, and was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany?
Berlin Crisis of 1961
When did the germans closed their borders with czechoslovakia which prompted weekly demonstrations with protests
after the berlin wall came down
Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany
FRG
East germany leader when the wall was built
Ulbricht
What conference split Germany into four zones after Germany’s surrender in WW2?
Potsdam Conference
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
democratic, capitalistic nation formed in 1949 out of the American, British, and French occupation zones
West Germany
The normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) beginning in 1969
Ostpolitik
ran Eastern Germany from 1971 until the days the berlin wall came down and replaced its economic system.
erich honecker
What alliance did Germany join in 1955
trans-Atlantic alliance
What occurred between June 24th, 1948 – May 12th, 1949 and was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War?
The Berlin Blockade
In what year did Germany reunify?
1990
Which chancellor of the FRG secured membership in NATO
Konrad Adenauer
What treaty allowed West Germany rearmament
Brussels Treaty
What started with a strike by construction workers on June 16th, 1953 and turned into a widespread uprising against the GDR government the next day?
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
What was West Germany’s provisional capital?
Bonn