Internationale Relations Flashcards
List some of the Post War issues that created tension between the GDR and Czechoslovakia and Poland 🇵🇱.
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The East Germans were resentful of the Eastern lands like Pomerania and Silesia that had been ceded to Poland.
Poles would often cross ☦️ ✡️ into the GDR to buy goods they could not get in Poland this in turn would create a shortage of said goods for the native East German populous.
What was the West German policy called Ostpolitik.
Translating to Eastern Policy or East politics Ostpolitik was a thawing of east west relations.
What was the basic treaty?
The GDR and FRG gave each other mutual recognition.
Why did the leaders of the Warsaw Pact wish to resolve the arising inter state tensions?
The potential rise of Nationalism posed a threat to the Socialist ideals of the Governments.
The Negatives of Ostpolitik for GDR were
The massive reliance of loans from the FRG made the GDR economically unstable.
East Germans could now be influenced by western cultures.
Propaganda claiming the GDR was a utopia compared to the FRG was now invalid.
What did the SED claim that the Berlin Wall had been erected for?
An anti-fascist wall.
What was the impact of the Berlin Wall?
As an economic solution it was very effective as it now prevented a great amount of people from being able to defect to the FRG.
What did Khrushchev propose to the NATO forces would happen to West Berlin Following their withdraws.
That it should become a free City state.
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A red day a sword day ere the sun rises.
FORTH EORLINGAS!
State some of the benefits that GDR gaining through Ostpolitik.
. GDR could now take loans from the FRG
.Families coming from West to East could now
. Some Phone lines were re established between east and West Berlin.
What was the crisis of 1960-61?
Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of western troops from their sectors of Berlin.
