foreign policy

• aims to maintain peace and freedom, integrate FRG into the western world, wanted united western Europe and protected by the USA, a close network of multinational institutions working together and opposed to unifying Germany ( would not give in to communism)
• Korean war confirmed communist threat and also helped improve Germany's industrial production
• he needed to win over the European states
• the Occupation statute April 1949: gave occupying power's right to supervise the country's trade
• The international Ruhr authority gave France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemborg control to distribrute area's of resources e.g., coal and iron
• The Petersburg agreement wanted to allow the FRG to join the international Ruhr authority. The chancellor gained a lot from this: dismantling of industry by the allies, FRG gained right to establish diplomatic relations and FRG allowed to join the European council
• The European economic commitee was an immediate success, coal and steel increased by 44% from 1952-7.
• The treaty of Rome created the European economic commitee with a union between 6 countries.
• by 1964 85% of west German agricultural production came under EEC trade
• EEC known as 'common market' and Adenauer became recognised as working with unions which helped increase economic influence
• Germany joined the NATO in 1955
• Adenauer visited Moscow Sept 1955 and opened diplomatic relations in exchange for 10,000 prisoners of war and 20,000 civilians and helped FRG decrease unemployment to 4.2% by 1955
• Adenauer rejected the Stalin notes 1952; keeping to his aims of not uniting with communism
• international economic organisations: OEEC, ECSC, EEC
• Hallstein doctrine allowed greater relations with Russia however said the west Germany seen as only Germany and did not want to come back together
• Adenauer ignored the 1953 June uprisings in the GDR