Why did the GDR collapse
- Created by: elle1999
- Created on: 18-03-16 18:03
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- Why did the GDR collapse?
- Pressure for reform
- Growing pressure- liberalisation.
- Prague Springs
- Small autonomous groups.
- 80-90 ecological groups.
- Environmental committee hall raided by Stasi.
- Protestant opposition groups.
- Had to balance the state and God.
- Protective cover
- Wanted to survive in difficult climate.
- 1978 accord by Honecker.
- Stasi monitored church
- View that they contributed to reform limited.
- Had to balance the state and God.
- Declining authority of SED
- May elections 1998, 98% SED
- Obvious FRG had higher standard of living.
- People still loyal
- Reluctant to take action against own party.
- Economy
- Gorbachev
- Protest groups
- Opening of the Berlin wall
- Honecker- wall would stand for 50 more years.
- Hungary's border opens with Austria.
- 30,000
- Closed East Germany's border with Czechoslovakia
- Emigration
- 250,000 in one year.
- New forum
- 75% under 40
- Rallys outside Leipzig church
- Gorbachev's visit to East Berlin
- 40th anniversary
- 700 arrested
- Urged Honecker to implement Soviet style reforms
- SED would not authorise repression without Soviet support.
- Fear after Tiananman square uprising response
- Pressure for reform
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