HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mutual Assured Destruction, Ostpolitik, Mikhail Gorbachev
Document Summary
A different sort of aging transition in the ussr. Agins society but no one to replace the older people in leadership. More than ever a europe of great socio-economic contrasts. This is all related to the dying leadership. By 1982, the same people had been in power for 30 years. Jarausch looks at one other thing: the cold war. Keep one thing in mind: there is only one superpower: the us. Now for something different: d tente and the return to d tente: 1969-1986. Was a period of mass armament on both sides. The 60s they arm themselves to the teeth. Graph of armament of the us and ussr. Nuclear winter: you can win the war but lose the planet. Western europeans realize there is a problem with this. De gaulle sought a europe free of the us. He withdrew france from nato military commitments. Role of brandt as the chancellor of west germany.
