Internationale Relations Flashcards

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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.

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What was the West German policy called Ostpolitik.

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Translating to Eastern Policy or East politics Ostpolitik was a thawing of east west relations.

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What was the basic treaty?

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The GDR and FRG gave each other mutual recognition.

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Why did the leaders of the Warsaw Pact wish to resolve the arising inter state tensions?

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The potential rise of Nationalism posed a threat to the Socialist ideals of the Governments.

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5
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The Negatives of Ostpolitik for GDR were

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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.

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What did the SED claim that the Berlin Wall had been erected for?

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An anti-fascist wall.

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What was the impact of the Berlin Wall?

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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.

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What did Khrushchev propose to the NATO forces would happen to West Berlin Following their withdraws.

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That it should become a free City state.

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A red day a sword day ere the sun rises.

FORTH EORLINGAS!

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10
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State some of the benefits that GDR gaining through Ostpolitik.

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. 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.

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What was the crisis of 1960-61?

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Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of western troops from their sectors of Berlin.

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