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Impact of reunification essay plan
- Expectation of reunificaiton
- Instant prosperity, a strong economy Kohl
promised this to raise support
- Cohesion and integration
- They wanted to be accepted by
the Western Lander
- Commitment to democarcy
- Both East-West were
committed to democracy
- Old GDR citizens wanted
democracy and not socialist
reform by 1991
- International approval
- Germans needed approval from other
countries such as the USA, France and UK
- UK and France eventually
persuaded, though they knew
unification was imminent
- Success/Failure
- Success
- Politics- large scale support
for democratic party
- Youth and retraining schemes
- Deal with unskilled workers
- Investment in the East
- Failure
- Widespread unemployment
- Lack of investment
- Yugoslav crisis 1989
- Criticised for being aggressive
- Gulf War 1990
- Did not understand their political position
- Nostalgia (Ostalgie) for old securities of
communist system
- Wouldn't exist if unification had given
them everything they wanted
- Lack of job security
- Competition for jobs
- Economy
- Success
- Investment into East
- 12 Billion into
infrastructure and
housing
- Youth retraining opportunities
- Failure
- Unemployment in East
- Not instant prosperity as promised
- Adapting
- Older generations found it hard to
adapt, there was a lack of job security
- Companies
collapsed, leading
to unemployment
- Open to competition with West, could not
compete because of lack of investment from
external countroes
- Trust holding companies
- Sold off more to Westerners
than Easterners
- Bush Money
- Relocate western workforce to East
- There was a need for skilled workers
- Economy failure by 1991, long term is was
successful, the expectationswere unrealistic to
be able to be met in 1991
- Social
- Success
- Greater freedoms-
voting and speech
- What they wanted
- Had opportunities to move
west, able to set up businesses
- Families reunited, personal
suffering caused now fixed
- Failure
- Easterners treated as 2nd class citizens
- Led to ostalgie, unemployment and
harsh competitiveness took time to
get used to
- Increased resentment against
easterners
- Solidarity tax, levied on all Germans
for Eastern development
- Failure of integration as hoped
- Despite youth retraining
schemes, youth delinquency
seen
- Appearance of Neo-Nazi groups
- Looked elsewhere away from democracy
- Education in East poor, low skilled people
- Female employment dropped, lack of
training and reliance on state provision
- Relied on state for services such as child
care, state no longer provided this
- Ostalgie
- Political
- Success
- Success for CDU/CSU, 43.8%
- Vote for democratic party, support
for democracy
- CDU offered democracy, people in old GDR
valued democracy
- NPD didn't win representation, anti democratic, people no
longer turned to extremist parties
- Failure
- None
- International acceptance
- Succss
- Maastricht treaty
- Led to creation of European Union
- Germany took part in the talks
- Germany was trusted, and
developed into a major European
player
- Stronger links to USSR, offered financial aid
- However, economic imperialism,
strongest economy in Europe
- Rule over people economically
- Gulf war 1990
- Refused to get involved, sent
money to USA instead
- Seen as being reasonable by Europe,
not in a rush to get involved in war
- USA saw Germany as
weak, they had a new
military and did not use it
- Failure
- Yugoslav crisis, accused of
being overy aggressive