History A-Level
Economic disparity and migration
What Economic disparity and migration means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Different levels of prosperity in the GDR and FRG, with lower living standards and a weak currency, while continued migration of skilled workers undermined the GDR further.
Topics that use Economic disparity and migration
- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 5 Reunification: recreating a united Germany, 1989–90 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Collapse of the GDR state
- Four Powers and international acceptance
- Impact of the GDR crisis on the FRG
- Kohl's Ten Point Plan and its aims
- Process and problems of reunification
- Push and pull factors in migration
- Revolution and protest in the GDR
- Significance for the reunification process
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