Question: How many states did West Germany have at its founding?
Answer: eleven

Question: What was West Berlin under the sovereignty of?
Answer: Western Allies

Question: Which state was West Berlin apart of?
Answer: neither a Western German state nor part of one

Question: When did the Saarland form?
Answer: 1957

Question: How many states was Germany reduced to in 1952
Answer: 1952

Question: What was the German constitution later amended to say about the citizens of the 16 states?
Answer: had successfully achieved the unity of Germany

Question: Article 23, before it was rephrased allowed what?
Answer: "any other parts of Germany" to join

Question: Which state was Article 23 used to reintegrate? 
Answer: Saar Protectorate

Question: The amended article 23 now defines the participation of the Federal Council and what else?
Answer: the 16 German states

Question: What has been discussed since the Federal Republic was founded in 1949?
Answer: new delimitation of the federal territory

Question: What have experts advocated in regards to delimitation?
Answer: a reduction of the number of states

Question: What is propagated by the richer states as a means to avoid or reduce fiscal transfers?
Answer: Territorial reform

Question: When did the debate on delimitation begin in Germany?
Answer: 1919

Question: Who was the father of the Weimar Constitution?
Answer: Hugo Preuss

Question: How many states was the German Reich to divided into?
Answer: 14

Question: Until 1933 how many configurations in the German states occurred? 
Answer: four

Question: When did Pyrmont join Prussia?
Answer: 1922

Question: When did the Nazi Party seize power?
Answer: January 1933

Question: What happened to the Länder as they lost importance during the Nazi regime?
Answer: They became administrative regions

Question: on January 1, 1934, Mecklenburg-Schwerin was united with which state?
Answer: Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Question: When did the Greater Hamburg Act occur?
Answer: April 1, 1937

Question: Which Prussian province did Lübeck become a part of?
Answer: Schleswig-Holstein

Question: In the revision of Article 29, what was a binding provision for a new delimitation of the federal territory?
Answer: the Federal Territory must be revised

Question: How much of the population must have been in favor of the revision?
Answer: one tenth

Question: What was required in each territory or part of a territory whose affiliation was to be changed? 
Answer: a referendum

Question: Which paragraph stated that reorganization should be completed within three years after the Basic Law had come into force?
Answer: paragraph 6

Question: In what negotiation did France offer to establish the independent Saarland?
Answer: Paris Agreements

Question: In the 23 October 1955 Saar Statute referendum, what percentage opposed the formation of the Saarland?
Answer: 67.7%

Question: What was the Saar Statute referendum voter turnout?
Answer: 96.5%

Question: Which political figure supported the Saar Statute referendum?
Answer: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

Question: The rejection of the plan by the Saarlanders was interpreted as support for the Saar to do what?
Answer: join the Federal Republic of Germany.

Question: Paragraph 6 of Article 29 states that a referendum, in the event of a successful petition should be held within how many years?
Answer: three

Question: What did the Hesse state government due when the May 5, 1958 deadline passed?
Answer: filed a constitutional complaint

Question: When was the Hesse state government's complaint dismissed?
Answer: July 1961

Question: On what grounds was the Hesse state government's complaint dismissed
Answer: exclusively federal matter

Question: What did Chancellor Willy Brandt propose in his  28 October 1969 address?
Answer: Article 29 of the Basic Law as a binding order

Question: Where did Chancellor Willy Brandt make his  28 October 1969 address?
Answer: Bonn

Question: An expert commission was established under which chairman?
Answer: Werner Ernst

Question: When did the expert commission deliver its report?
Answer: the district of Germersheim

Question: Which state would the district of Germersheim be a part of?
Answer: Baden-Württemberg

Question: Which article stipulates that the structure of each Federal State's government must "conform to the principles of republican, democratic, and social government, based on the rule of law"?
Answer: Article 28

Question: Most states are governed by what figure?
Answer: Ministerpräsident

Question: What are most state legislatures called?
Answer: Landtag

Question: How is the Minister President chosen?
Answer: a majority vote among the Landtag's members

Question: Who does Minister-President choose to run state agencies?
Answer: a cabinet

Question: What are the governments in Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg called?
Answer: Senate

Question:  What is the government called in the three free states of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia?
Answer: the State Government

Question: What did Bavaria's government have before 2001?
Answer: a bicameral parliament

Question: How many people are in the executive branch senate in Berlin?
Answer: eight

Question: The parliament in Berlin is called what?
Answer: Abgeordnetenhaus

Question: What are the districts of Germany considered?
Answer: administrative districts

Question: Every state, other than the free states, consist of districts called what?
Answer: "rural districts"

Question: How many urban districts are in Bremen?
Answer: two

Question: Berlin and Hamburg are states and what else at the same time?
Answer: urban districts

Question: Local associations of a special kind are an amalgamation of one or more Landkreise with what?
Answer: one or more Kreisfreie Städte

Question: What do local associations replace?
Answer: administrative entities at the district level

Question: What are local associations  intended to implement?
Answer: simplification of administration

Question: What is the association a district-free city or town and its urban hinterland typically grouped into?
Answer: Kommunalverband besonderer Art

Question: What does a Kommunalverband besonderer Art require?
Answer: the issuing of special laws

Question: Every rural district is subdivided into what?
Answer: municipalities

Question: Every urban district is what in its own right?
Answer: municipality

Question: How many municipalities are there?
Answer: 12,141

Question: What is the smallest administrative unit in Germany?
Answer: a municipality

Question: What are town rights called?
Answer: Stadtrechte

Question: Municipalities have how many major policy responsibilities?
Answer: local governments can justify

Question: What article grants the municipalities "the right to regulate on their own responsibility all the affairs of the local community within the limits set by law.
Answer: Article 28(2)

Question: Under Article 28(2) local governments can justify what?
Answer: a wide range of activities

Question: What is one way municipalities develop the economic infrastructure?
Answer: development

Question: In what year did the Korean War begin?
Answer: 1950

Question: What caused the start of the Korean War?
Answer: North Korea invaded South Korea

Question: What country was divided at the end of World War II?
Answer: Korea

Question: Which country aided South Korea during the war?
Answer: United States

Question: When did the Korean War end?
Answer: 27 July 1953

Question: What nation ruled Korea in 1910?
Answer: Japan

Question: What part of Korea did the Soviet Union occupy?
Answer: north of the 38th parallel

Question: Who occupied Korea south of the 38th parallel?
Answer: U.S. forces

Question: What United Nation's committee considered the invasion of Korea to be an act of aggression?
Answer: United Nations Security Council

Question: How many countries assisted in the defense of South Korea?
Answer: Twenty-one