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Détente and Social ChangeHistory 104 / April 24,
2013
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Willy BrandtWest German Chancellor,1969-1974he
re kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto monument, Dec.
1970
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The Helsinki Conference, 1975the high point of
détente
here East and West German leaders hold a
conversation across the aisle
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The oil shock, 1973long lines for gas in the
United States
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The oil shock, 1973empty highways in Germany
during a Sunday driving ban
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Germanys Red Army Faction in the 1970s(right
one of several kidnapping victims, later murdered)
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Italys Red Brigades kidnap and murderformer
Prime Minister Aldo Moro (1978)
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Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime
Minister,1979-1990
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The G-7, a consultation mechanism for the major
industrial powers(here meeting in Bonn, 1978,
with the head of the EU)
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Green movementsagainst nuclear power, acid
rain, genetically modified foods
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Moral bankruptcycitizens spy on one anotherfor
the security services(KGB, Stasi, etc.)
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Economic bankruptcy unsustainable benefits
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Economic bankruptcy environmental devastation
(here open-face coal mining in East Germany)
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The Chernobyl reactor leak(April 1986)
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Competing identities nationalism(here, East
German protesters insist that they are one people
with West Germans)
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Competing identitiesreligion(esp. Catholicism
in Poland)
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The Solidarity movement in Poland(1980-89)Lech
Walesa(1943- )
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Mikhail Gorbachevs reforms in the
USSR(1985-1991)
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Nov. 9, 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Aug. 1991 Yeltsin helps to bring down the Soviet
Union