This person considered proposing to Khrushchev a 25-billion-dollar loan to the USSR in exchange for the reunification of Germany. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person who, in the 1950s, extended Bismarck’s economic policy to resuscitate the German welfare state. Middle-income tax cuts and the abolition of price controls led to this man presiding over West Germany’s economic miracle with Konrad Adenauer, whom he’d later succeed.
ANSWER: Ludwig Erhard
[10e] Erhard’s plans for German recovery were buoyed by this program. This program, named for a secretary of state, provided foreign aid to much of Western Europe after World War II.
ANSWER: Marshall Plan
[10m] During his chancellorship, Erhard opposed this policy that was championed by later chancellor Willy Brandt. This policy, which replaced the Hallstein Doctrine, pursued the normalization of relations with East Germany.
ANSWER: Neue Ostpolitik
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