Germany 1945-1990 : : A Parallel History / / Jürgen Weber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Weber, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.)

This book offers lively description and convincing interpretation of the most significant events, cruxes and ongoing themes in German history from the end of the Second World War up to the present. The main features of the last fifty years are not only succinctly and vividly presented and interpreted, they are also placed in the context of international political developments. The chronologies that accompany each chapter record the most important dates, facts and names occurring in the narrative. Jürgen Weber’s text supplies the reader with a combination of vivid descriptive history, easily absorbed chronology, and a reliable reference work for the parallel lives of the two Germanies, a product of the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Into the Abyss: Germany under Allied Occupation, 1945-46 -- 2. Germany Is Set on a New Course: The Founding of Two States, 1947-1949 -- 3. The Federal Republic Orientates to the West: Western Integration and the "Economic Miracle" in the Adenauer Era, 1949-1963 -- 4. Hegemony Against the Will of the People: The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1961 -- 5. From Stagnation to Take-Off, and from Ludwig Erhard to the Grand Coalition, 1963-1969 -- 6. After the Building of the Wall: Stabilisation of the SED State by Means of Force under Walter Ulbricht, 1961-1971 -- 7. The Republic in Transition: The New Policy Towards the East and Commitment to Reform in the Brandt Era, 1969-1974 -- 8. The Crisis Years: Political Strains and Their Solutions During the Period of the Schmidt/Genscher Government, 1974-1982 -- 9. The Dictatorship's Deceptive Facade of Normality: GDR under Honecker from the 1970's Onwards -- 10. A Change of Government in Bonn: The Christian Democrat-Liberal Coalition under Helmut Kohl from 1982 -- 11. The Collapse of the SED Dictatorship and the Fall of the Wall in 1989 -- 12. The Unanticipated Reunification: The New Course for Germany and International Reaction to It, 1989-90 -- 13. In Retrospect -- Bibliography