The word describes a development over several years.
“Economic miracle” is a historical term for exceptionally rapid growth. It is not a single event on a particular day. For this question, connect it with the decade after the Federal Republic was founded in 1949.
Several factors worked together: reconstruction, currency reform, international support and trade, and the work of the population. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard is particularly associated with the social market economy. The boom was not, however, the achievement of a single person.
The other three answers
The years must match the West German post-war boom.
1940s
The 1940s are too early for the decade sought. The Federal Republic was not founded until 1949; the question places the economic miracle in the following decade, the 1950s.
1970s
The 1970s are much later. The historical term in this question does not mean any period of growth, but the strong expansion of the early Federal Republic.
1980s
The 1980s are also too late. To find the answer, think of the post-war years and the beginnings of the Federal Republic, not its later decades before reunification.
Growth does not mean that everyone owns the same amount.
An economic boom describes the development of the economy as a whole. It does not prove that every family became prosperous in the same year or that social differences disappeared. Social policy and housing remained important tasks.
“The 1950s” identifies the central decade of the boom. It does not mean that everything suddenly began on 1 January 1950 or that all growth stopped on 31 December 1959.
Economy in the West · House of History ↗Economic miracle → West Germany in the 1950s.
Connect the term with the decade after the state’s founding in 1949.
Three words for this question
- der Aufschwungeconomic upswing
- A period in which economic activity increases noticeably.
- der Wohlstandprosperity
- Material living conditions, such as income and available goods.
- das Jahrzehntdecade
- A period of ten years, such as 1950 to 1959.