WGermany2

__** Themes: Separation: 1949-1989 Reunification/Rebuilding: 1990-Present
 * __Germany Timeline

media type="google" key="7250044338106298816&hl=en" width="400" height="326" pink= British zone **green= Soviet zone** **yellow= American zone** **dark purple= French zone** **red= Berlin, Vienna under Allied military administration** **light purple= annexed by poland** **light green= annexed by the Soviet Union **  1949: After WWII, the Allies divide Germany. The U.S., French, and British zones in West Germany become the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet zone in East Germany becomes the communist German Democratic Republic. Konrad Adenauer is appointed West Germany’s first chancellor. (POLITICAL)

1950’s: Rapid economic growth begins in West Germany. (ECONOMIC)



<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)">1955: West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and East and West Germany are declared independent, each taking opposite sides in the Cold War military alliances. (POLITICAL and SOCIAL)

1957: West Germany signs the European Economic Community (EEC) organization treaty along with Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, in an attempt to achieve the economic unity of its member nations, eventually leading to political unity. (ECONOMIC and POLITICAL)

August 13, 1961: East German Communists decide to close the border between East and West Berlin to prevent the half a million East Germans who crossed the border everyday from escaping to West Berlin. The Berlin Wall is constructed. (POLITICAL and SOCIAL)

<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)"> 1968: East Germany declares reunification with West Germany is impossible unless West Germany becomes socialist too. (SOCIAL) <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)"> 1969: Willy Brandt is elected chancellor of West Germany and wants better ties with East Germany and the Soviet Union. (POLITICAL and SOCIAL) <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)"> 1973: East and West Germany ratify a treaty for closer relations between the two, and they both join the United Nations. (POLITICAL and SOCIAL) 1974: Brandt resigns and Helmut Schmidt becomes chancellor, continuing Brandt’s “Ostpolitik” (improving relations with east). (POLITICAL) <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,4,236)">

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March, 1990 - The East German Communist Party (SED), newly renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), is defeated by **Helmut Kohl's** pro-reunification Christian Democratic Union, led by **Lothar de Maiziere**. (POLITICAL)  ======

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March 2002 – The German government passes an immigration bill which allows a limited number of non-EU skilled workers in the country. (SOCIAL) ======

November 2005 – **Angela Merkel** becomes chancellor of Germany in what is called a “grand coalition” between the CDU and the Social Democrat Party of Germany (POLITICAL)
February 2007 - Germany has 3000 troops in Afghanistan, the third most troops from any country.

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