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Divided and United Germany since 1945

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  1. What was the main purpose of the Nuremberg trials of 1945–1946?
  2. What was decided about Germany at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?
  3. What was the Marshall Plan (1948)?
  4. What was the Berlin Airlift of 1948–1949?
  5. In which years were the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic founded?
  6. What does Article 1 of the Basic Law (1949) state?
  7. What does the term Wirtschaftswunder describe?
  8. Why was the Berlin Wall built in August 1961?
  9. What was the aim of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik?
  10. What was the Hallstein Doctrine of West Germany?
  11. What was the main concern of the West German student movement of 1968?
  12. What were the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig in autumn 1989?
  13. On which date did the Berlin Wall open?
  14. When did German reunification take place, and under which treaty did the four powers agree?
  15. Who was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany?
  16. In which year was the euro introduced as an accounting currency, and when did the notes and coins arrive?
  17. Which treaty of 1957 founded the European Economic Community, with West Germany as one of six founding members?
  18. Which chancellor led West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989?

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