This country experienced a string of murders and hijackings by the Red Army Faction in fall 1977, and the failure of the European Defense Community allowed this country to rearm under Defense Minister Francis Joseph Strauss, who led his party in this country's 1980 elections
This country experienced a string of murders and hijackings by the Red Army Faction in fall 1977, and the failure of the European Defense Community allowed this country to rearm under Defense Minister Francis Joseph Strauss, who led his party in this country's 1980 elections against the Social Democratic Party. This country's first chancellor was Konrad Adenauer, whose party was unseated by the SPD in the 1969 elections, which led to Willy Brandt instituting Ostpolitik. For 10 points, name this country, formed from the French, American, and British occupation zones, often contrasted with East Germany.
This country experienced a string of murders and hijackings by the Red Army Faction in fall 1977, and the failure of the European Defense Community allowed this country to rearm under Defense Minister Francis Joseph Strauss, who led his party in this country's 1980 elections against the Social Democratic Party.
{West Germany} [accept {Federal Republic of Germany}; accept {Bundesrepublik Deutschland}; prompt on {Germany}]