How successful was the GDR in improving international relations
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- How successful was the GDR in promoting international prestige (1961-85)
- Helsinki Accords 1975
- Human rights ignored
- Boosted international standings
- Socialist heart of Europe
- Showed East and West as separate entities.
- Relations between GDR and USSR
- 13 of 21 Politburo members wanted Ulbricht to resign
- honecker more willing to conform
- Four powers agreement 1971
- Trade from West Berlin
- 1975- Treaty of friendship
- Socialism would grow from Moscow
- Cold war hostility between 1970s and 1980s
- Ostpolitik tightened
- USSR encouraged Honecker to delay visits to FRG in 1984
- USSR senior
- Brezhnev doctrine
- Strain on foreign policy
- Replaced in 1985
- 13 of 21 Politburo members wanted Ulbricht to resign
- Relations of COMECON and Warsaw pact countries
- WW2 relations between Eastern block countries strained.
- Labour shortages
- Germans could't buy goods in Poland
- Prague springs 1968
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Honecker 1971
- Trade with West more important
- Visas introduced in 1980s
- Moscow carried eastern bloc
- WW2 relations between Eastern block countries strained.
- International status
- Hallstein doctrine restricted GDR.
- 1969- many Arab states recognised GDR.
- Helsinki Accords 1975
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