gdr ; dev state 61-85 ; gdr / frg relations ; impact ostpolitik on economy / standard of livin

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financial support was given in which four ways?
subsidies / ransoms / taxes / credit favours
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ostpolitik led to some improvements as led to honecker increasing confidence to introduce?
widespread welfare reforms
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in many ways benefits short term as led to reckless?
borrowing
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and GDR increasing depenence in what area on FRG?
financial
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ADVANTAGES OF OSTPOLITIK
DGF
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honecker's Unity of Economic and Social Policy aimed raise living standards through
consumerism and welfare
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as well as ideological jsutification they were made possible by availability of what thru ostpolitik?
cheap credit from FRG
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in 7/80s living standards in GDR improved compared with?
other ebloc
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and comsumer goods like what became more widely available?
cars / household goods
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however items becoming increasingly common in FRG were rare in GDR like?
video recorders / microwaves
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GDR also overcame shortage of certanin goods as result of what with FG?
trade agreements
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no tariffs or trade barriers which in effect made GDR unofficial member of?
European Economic Community (EEC)
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DISADVANTAGES
DFGDG
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honecker's gov can be seen as indulging in?
reckless borrowing
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on avg over how many DM income each year generated by compulsory currency exchanges?
800M
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as well as?
FRG funds lent to GDR
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equates to about what % all egerman foreign trade?
8%
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what was level of trade in '78?
DM8.8bn
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and in '86?
DM15.2bn
19 of 32
though pull of GDR to west was good for economy generated problems in what area?
political
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some FRG loans tied explicitly tp?
specific arrangements
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like two credits in early '80s for granting how many GDR citizens FRG emigration?
35,000
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other loans allowed FRG to justifu putting pressure on GDR ro remove what?
landmines from inner-german border
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withdraw?
automatic shooting guns
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and implement measures to aid what?
communication between states
25 of 32
this all chipped away @ SED ctrl over?
internal affairs
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what were the two secret loans of DM2b given to GDR to solve?
liquidity crisis in '82
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used to prop up?
gdr financial rep
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bu allowing it to do what?
honour other loans
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rather than?
midernise eco infrastructure
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USSR raised concerns but what was too good to refuse?
interest-free credit from FRG
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continued lack of what jsut added to eco crisis?
investment in areas that needed it
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