Ostpolitik
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- Created on: 04-05-15 17:05
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- Ostpolitik
- Ostpolitik showed a complete lack of caring about the cold war and foreign relations.
- Between 1972 and 1989 the GDR took loans of 15 billion from the FRG
- People no longer assumed that reunifying was a possibility
- Nuclear threats were still very real and very scary.
- Some MPs argued that the 1972 Basic Treaty showed approval or at least acceptance of the GDR
- The Oil Crisis 1973
- The price of oil tripled because the US was providing oil to Israel.
- To combat this in the FRG there were car free sundays and speed restrictions
- Opposition
- The APO
- The APO was a group of left wing students and trade unionists
- They saw radical protests as only way to challenge government and establishment
- They didn't like the fact that the Grand Coalition owned 66% of the bundestag.
- SDS
- Formed in 1946
- In 1968 80,000 students demonstrated in Bonn against the Emergency Legislation
- There was a worry about extremism in the FRG. Both very left wing groups and neo nazi groups were working within it
- The RAF
- They were a terrorist group
- Mainly made up of upper middle class, well educated young people.
- Responsible for bank robberies
- The APO
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