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GDR Exam Study Guide Solutions Yalta - Ans:--divide Germany into 4 zones -Poland given land to compensate for the USSR keeping land from Poland in 1939 Postsdam - Ans:--denazification -demilitarisation -deindustrialisation= help pay reparations -democratisation Soviet Zone popuation - Ans:--...

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GDR Exam Study Guide Solutions


Yalta - Ans:✔✔--divide Germany into 4 zones


-Poland given land to compensate for the USSR keeping land from Poland in 1939


Postsdam - Ans:✔✔--denazification


-demilitarisation


-deindustrialisation= help pay reparations


-democratisation


Soviet Zone popuation - Ans:✔✔--19 million 1947


-women to men 1.35:1


-for every 100 working people 58 who were not


-lot of young and elderly people; high dependency ratio


Stalin's view fro Germany - Ans:✔✔--no desire to become a communist republic


-wanted to reunite Germany

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-'anti-facist democracy' = hoping to deploy German communist under Soviet administration


Soviet Military Administration - Ans:✔✔--created June 1945


-50,000 Soviet and German members


-responsible for 4 areas : military affairs, economy, civil administration and political question


Merger of KPD and SPD - Ans:✔✔--created SED


-bigger party to win elections


-by 1948 summer 0.2 million members


-couldn't win elections in 1946 SED won less than 20% of the popular vote


Eradication of Nazism - Ans:✔✔--former party members sent to concentration camps ; 43,000 died in

camps from 1945-49


-September 1945 Land reforms; 33% of useful agriculture land was taken, 2 million heaters was

redistributed


-October 1945 Confiscation of property


-Education was opened up to the working class; in 1945 working class 3% of university vs 58% in 1950


Reparations payments - Ans:✔✔--54 billion Ostmarks


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-dismantelling industrial plants, actual money payments


-reparations to keep Germany weak


-suffered 29% loss in wartime capacity


Western zones co-operation - Ans:✔✔--Bizonia in 1946


-Trizonia 1949


-two distinct Germany's


-March 1948 Russian representatives left ACC over plans of new currency


-FRG in May 1949


Berlin Blockade - Ans:✔✔--2,325,808 tons flown into Berlin


-blockade failed and showed how the West could not abandon Berlin


System of government - Ans:✔✔--Volkskammer, parliment, represented by proportional representation


-Landkammer represented the 5 states of the GDR and determined policy at Land level


Political control - Ans:✔✔-Article 6 and 8 gave authorities full power


-Supreme Court 1949 given authority to implement article 6



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-Central commission for State control set up to investigate those felt to pose any threat to the regime


-Ministry of state security 1950 = all powerful


Purges in 1950's - Ans:✔✔--stasi grew 8x 1950-52


-began arresting potential opponents; anti-semetic policy


-no show trials too close to west


-trials were in secret led to arrest and exile


SED domination - Ans:✔✔--council of ministers (Volskammer) had to comply with SED decisions


-SED dominated public sector jobs 49% by 1950 had working class backgrounds


-emphasis on ideological purity as much as administrative efficency


SED's governance - Ans:✔✔--SED was governed by Politburo; emphasis on central control


-in July 1952 Lander dissolved to be replaced by 15 regional organisations; growing centralisation in

guise of greater democracy


-constitution of rights was an illusion, true power resided with the SED


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Socialist economic planning - Ans:✔✔--1950 state planning

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