German economic miracle

Examples of German economic miracle in the following topics:

• Europe After World War II

  • By the 1950s, every fifth West German was a refugee from the east.
  • The UK, by contrast, was in a state of economic ruin after the war and continued to experience relative economic decline for decades to follow.
  • Dismantling of West German industry ended in 1951.
  • Clay and George Marshall, the Truman administration accepted that economic recovery in Europe could not go forward without the reconstruction of the German industrial base on which it had previously been dependent.
  • The post-1948 West German recovery has been called the German economic miracle.

• The Recession

  • The first burst of the recession was short-lived, as fervent pre-election activity by the governments of the United States and Canada created what many economists at the time saw as an economic miracle: a growing consumer confidence and increased consumer spending almost single-handedly lifted the North American economy out of recession.
  • It soon turned out that the quick recovery was illusory, and by 1990, economic malaise had returned with the beginning of the Gulf War and the resulting 1990 spike in the price of oil, which increased inflation (albeit to less of a degree than did the oil crisis of ten years earlier).
  • Some pundits guessed – wrongly, as it turned out – that this would be a permanent state of affairs and that both the German and Japanese economies would grow to be larger than America's.

• The Mexican Economic Miracle

  • The Mexican Economic Miracle refers to the country’s inward-looking development strategy, which produced sustained economic growth form the 1940s until the 1970s.
  • The Mexican Economic Miracle refers to the country’s inward-looking development strategy, which produced sustained economic growth of 3-4 percent with modest 3 percent inflation annually from the 1940s until the 1970s.
  • During the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas, significant policies were enacted in the social and political spheres that had major impacts on the economic policies of the country as a whole.
  • The primary school enrollment rate increased threefold from the late 1920s through to the 1940s, making economic output more productive by the 1940s.
  • Mexico’s strong economic performance continued into the 1960s when GDP growth averaged around seven percent overall and approximately three percent per capita.

• Judaism

  • There were approximately 250,000 Jews in the United States by 1880, many of them being the educated, and largely secular, German Jews, although a minority population of the older Sephardic Jewish families remained influential.
  • Jewish immigration to the United States increased dramatically in the early 1880s, as a result of persecution and economic difficulties in parts of Eastern Europe.
  • During the same period, a great number of Ashkenazi Jews arrived also from Galicia, at that time the most impoverished region of Austro-Hungarian Empire with heavy Jewish urban population, driven out mainly by economic reasons.
  • They were also less likely to believe in supernatural phenomena such as miracles, angels, or heaven.

• Technological Advancement

  • Commercial color television broadcasts began on CBS in 1951 with a field-sequential color system that was suspended 4 months later for technical and economic reasons.
  • At the close of World War II, both the U.S. and Russian forces recruited or smuggled top German scientists such as Wernher von Braun to their respective countries to continue defense-related work.
  • The German rocket team was moved from Fort Bliss to the Army's new Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950.
  • When news of the vaccine's success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a miracle worker and the day nearly became a national holiday.
  • Penicillin was viewed as a miracle drug that brought enormous profits and shaped public expectations; photo by author unknown, probably South Carolina in the 1940s

• Dunkirk and Vichy France

  • The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940, during World War II.
  • In his We shall fight on the beaches speech on 4 June, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of deliverance."
  • This line had been designed to deter a German invasion across the Franco-German border and funnel an attack into Belgium, which could then be met by the best divisions of the French Army.
  • The Germans would thus cut off the Allied armies in Belgium and Flanders.
  • By 24 May, the Germans had captured the port of Boulogne and surrounded Calais.

• The Germanic Tribes

  • They are identified by their use of Germanic languages, which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
  • These five dialects are distinguished as North Germanic in southern Scandinavia; North Sea Germanic in the regions along the North Sea and in the Jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of Denmark together with the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein; Rhine-Weser Germanic along the middle Rhine and Weser river, which empties into the North Sea near Bremerhaven; Elbe Germanic directly along the middle Elbe river; and East Germanic between the middle of the Oder and Vistula rivers.
  • For the most part however, these early Germanic people shared a basic culture, operated similarly from an economic perspective, and were not nearly as differentiated as the Romans implied.
  • Germanic people were fierce in battle, creating a strong military.
  • The Germanic Kingdoms and the Eastern Roman Empire in 526 CE

• The Eisenhower Administration

  • Despite its undemocratic nature, Spain's strategic position in light of the Cold War and Anti-Communist position led Eisenhower to build a trade and military alliance with the Spanish through the Pact of Madrid, ultimately bringing an end to Spain's isolation after World War II, and bringing about the Spanish Miracle.
  • After Diem announced the formation of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly known as South Vietnam) in October, Eisenhower immediately recognized the new state and offered military, economic, and technical assistance.
  • Eisenhower used the economic power of the U.S. to force his European allies to back down and withdraw from Egypt.
  • Further, the United States would provide economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East.
  • The "Space Race" originated from the missile-based nuclear arms race between the the U.S. and Soviet Union that occurred following World War II, as both countries sought to recruit German engineers who worked on ballistic missile programs that could be utilized to launch objects into space.

• The Western Front

  • The Western Front in Europe opened with a German invasion and continued through four years of bloody combat in World War I.
  • In a counter attack along the Marne River from September 5-12, 1917, which came to be known as the First Battle of the Marne, or the Miracle of the Marne, six French combat groups with the help of the British Expeditionary Force pushed the Germans northwest back toward their own border.
  • In August 1916, new German leaders along the Western Front recognized that the battles of Verdun and the Somme had depleted the offensive capabilities of the German Army.
  • This would be the last German offensive of the war.
  • Two United States soldiers run past the remains of two German soldiers toward a bunker.

• Operation Barbarossa

  • In the two years leading up to the invasion, the two countries signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes.
  • Operationally, the Germans won resounding victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union, mainly in Ukraine, both inflicting and sustaining heavy casualties.
  • The Germans' belief in their ethnic superiority is discernible in official German records and by pseudoscientific articles in German periodicals at the time, which covered topics such as "how to deal with alien populations."
  • He now believed he could defeat the Soviets by economic damage, depriving them of the industrial capacity to continue the war.
  • Clockwise from top left: German soldiers advance through Northern Russia, German flamethrower team in the Soviet Union, Soviet planes flying over German positions near Moscow, Soviet prisoners of war on the way to German prison camps, Soviet soldiers fire at German positions.