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Détente and Social Change History 104 / April 24, 2013

Détente and Social Change History 104 / April 24, 2013. Willy Brandt West German Chancellor, 1969-1974 here: kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto monument, Dec. 1970. The Helsinki Conference, 1975: the high point of d étente. here: East and West German leaders hold a conversation across the aisle.

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Détente and Social Change History 104 / April 24, 2013

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  1. Détente and Social ChangeHistory 104 / April 24, 2013

  2. Willy BrandtWest German Chancellor,1969-1974here: kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto monument, Dec. 1970

  3. The Helsinki Conference, 1975:the high point of détente here: East and West German leaders hold a conversation across the aisle

  4. The oil shock, 1973:long lines for gas in the United States

  5. The oil shock, 1973:empty highways in Germany during a Sunday driving ban

  6. Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s(right: one of several kidnapping victims, later murdered)

  7. Italy’s Red Brigades kidnap and murderformer Prime Minister Aldo Moro (1978)

  8. Margaret ThatcherBritishPrime Minister,1979-1990

  9. The G-7, a consultation mechanism for the major industrial powers(here: meeting in Bonn, 1978, with the head of the EU)

  10. Green movements:against nuclear power, acid rain, genetically modified foods

  11. Moral bankruptcy:citizens spy on one anotherfor the security services(KGB, Stasi, etc.)

  12. Economic bankruptcy: unsustainable benefits

  13. Economic bankruptcy: environmental devastation (here: open-face coal mining in East Germany)

  14. The Chernobyl reactor leak(April 1986)

  15. Competing identities: nationalism(here, East German protesters insist that they are one people with West Germans)

  16. Competing identities:religion(esp. Catholicism in Poland)

  17. The Solidarity movement in Poland(1980-89)Lech Walesa(1943- )

  18. Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms in the USSR(1985-1991)

  19. Nov. 9, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall

  20. Aug. 1991: Yeltsin helps to bring down the Soviet Union

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