Who is named the first leader of a reunified Germany?
- Helmut Kohl
Which is the only nation to keep foreign troops in Germany after reunification?
United States
What is one of Kohl’s first decisions in 1991?
- To relocate the capital from Bonn to Berlin
In what year does a wave of xenophobia originating from neo-Nazi movements moves through Germany?
1992
In what year did the reunified send their first troops overseas?
1996 - Bosnia
What US war did the Germans famously refuse to participate in?
Iraq 2003
When was the first time Germany ousted a chancellor from office?
- In the elections of September 27th 1998
- Kohl is out, Schroeder is in
When is the German Mark replaced by the EURO?
January 1st 2002
True or False: Germany got through the financial crisis of 2008 without any significant unemployment increase.
TRUE
What party did Angela Merkel belong to?
CDU
What age did Schroeder’s government raise retirement age to for pensions?
67
What did Merkel do with the army?
- The army was professionalised and compulsory military service abandoned.
True or False: The unification with the east has not advanced too much in the older generation
TRUE
True or False: Very few marriages take place between East-Germans and West-Germans.
TRUE
What was the unemployment rate in the east after reunification?
25%
Much higher than the west
True or False:
In many areas of East Germany, a lost, mostly male, generation remains that has strong tendencies to Neo-Nazi ideologies
True
In what year did Merkel allow in 1 million refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq?
2015
True or False:
The youth of Germany today is perhaps the most open generation towards the multi-cultural and globalized world
TRUE
Define: Agenda 2010 reforms
- Schroeder’s reform plan:
Cut unemployment benefits
Restructured social assistance
Deregulated parts of the labour market
What is Germany’s 2000 citizenship law ?
- Children born in Germany with non-German parents could obtain citizenship IF
ONE of their parents had been a legal resident for at least 8 years
The 8 years in the German citizenship law was later reduced to. What was it reduced to? When?
2004 - 7 years
2024 - 5 years
Which Chancellor created the German citizenship law of 2000?
Schroëder
