Question 1
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How many West Germany wanted reunification and how many rejected it in a poll held in 1989?
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80% for reunification and 20% rejecting
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70% for reunification and 15% rejecting it
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50% for reunification and 30% rejecting it
Question 2
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What idea did Helmut Kohl present to the Bundestag in 1989 that would help reunification to go ahead?
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5 point plan
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10 point plan
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15 point plan
Question 3
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How many East Germans were flooding into West Germany per day when the Berlin Wall was opened?
Question 4
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How many people continued to protest for unification and what cities did they protest in?
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500,000 and in Leipzig and Dresdeen
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300,000 and in Bonn and Frankfurt
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400,000 and in Hamburg and Nuremburg
Question 5
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What did Helmut Kohl promise to the French and USSR to win them over?
Question 6
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What party did Kohl give his support for and what did he do to ensure that reunification had the best chance possible?
Question 7
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As a result of the currency union, the East Germans currency would be exchanged, but what were the exchange rates?
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1:1 for normal accounts, 2:1 for debts and 3:1 for foreign accounts
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2:1 for normal accounts, 1:1 for debts and 4:1 for foreign accounts
Question 8
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How much did people's real incomes increase in 1991 and how many new businesses were created?
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Real incomes increased 28% in 1989-1991 and 175,000 new businesses
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Real incomes increased 20% in 1989-1991 and 150,000 new businesses
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Real incomes increased 15% in 1989-1991 and 200,000 new businesses
Question 9
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With the falling employment, what social groups that relied on state provisions were particularly vulnerable?
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Women
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Men
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Donald Trump supporters
Question 10
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Out of the allied powers which one look favourably on Kohl's moves toward's reunification and which did not?
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America looked favourably on reunification, Britain and France looked unfavourably on Kohl's efforts
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Britain looked favourably on reunification, America and France looked unfavourably on Kohl's efforts
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France looked favourably on reunification, Britain and America looked unfavourably on Kohl's efforts
Question 11
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Britain and France opposed reunification at in 1989, what did they do to try and slow the pace of reunification?
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Margaret Thatcher met Gorbachev and tried to persuade him to look a different way and France considered a military alliance with the USSR
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France and Britain met and formed an alliance committed to prevent reunification
Question 12
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What were the 2+4 agreements over and what policy did they come up with?
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They were over Russia's objections to a united Germany's membership of NATO, the London Declaration.
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They were over Britain's objections to a united Germany's membership of NATO, the Paris Declaration.
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They were over France's objections to a united Germany's membership of NATO, the Bonn Declaration.
Question 13
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What programme was launched in March 1991?
Question 14
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There were massive changes to the world of work, people moved to new jobs, people retired early and many were unemployed, what were the figures?
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21% had moved to a new job, 8% were unemployed and 10% had retired early
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30% had moved to a new job, 6% were unemployed and 10% had retired early
Question 15
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The Gulf War broke out in 1990, America got involved but what did Germany do and decide to do instead?
Question 16
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What was a strange side effect of reunification?
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The old GDR citizens had a sense of nostalgia for the securities of the communist system in the GDR provided
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The old GDR citizens began to question if they really wanted to be a part of the FRG and have a democratic system
Question 17
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There was the problem of where to put the capital of the new united republic in 1991, where was it and when was it to take effect?
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Berlin decided in 1991 and put into effect in 1999
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Bonn decided in 1991 and put into effect in 1992
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Nuremberg decided in 1991 and put into effect in 1995