HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Nikita Khrushchev, Ostpolitik
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The collapse of communism: independence was not granted to any country, but rather the independence had to be fought for, battle of algiers. It depicts events that happened a few years prior to it and had the theme of italian realism > made the lm look very realistic (documentary style) Beginning slowly in the 1980s poland began to unravel. Germany (frg, or west germany) and eastern europe, particularly the german. Democratic republic (gdr, or east germany) beginning in 1969. Ostpolitik was an effort to break with the policies of the christian democratic union (cdu), which was the elected government of west germany from 1949 until 1969. The christian democrats under konrad adenauer and his successors tried to combat the communist regime of east germany, while brandt"s social democrats tried to achieve a certain degree of cooperation with east germany. This opened up relations between west and east germany and created a new dependency of east germany on the west.
