UNIT 4 - RELAXING OF TENSIONS
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- Detente and Ostpolitik
- Developments
- The four power Berlin agreement (1971)
- USSR and GDR recognised West Berlin's ties with the FRG and the right of West Berliners to visit the FRG
- The Basic Treaty (June 1973)
- FRG recongnised the GDR as an equal and independent state - a visa was introduced whereby West Berliner's could say in East Berlin for one full day
- The four power Berlin agreement (1971)
- Changing relations
- Cold War tensions began to relax
- A key reason for this was the aftershock of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Cold War tensions began to relax
- Brandt
- Felt the Hallstein Doctrine was outdated
- Xmas 1963 - He agreed for East Berlin to be the GDR's capital in return for the concession that West Berliners could visit relatives over an 18 day period.
- Opposition
- Some said negiotations broke the basic Law which was focusing on reunification.
- Some felt that this action actually strenghened division
- Results
- The GDR was recongnised by 132 states, joined the UN AND RECEIVED LARGE LOANS FROM THE FRG
- The GDR became dependent on the FRG
- In Sept. 1974 the GDR declared itself a seperate socialist nation/
- The GDR was recongnised by 132 states, joined the UN AND RECEIVED LARGE LOANS FROM THE FRG
- Developments
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