PSCI281 Lecture Notes - Mikhail Gorbachev, Realpolitik, Warsaw Pact
Document Summary
1945, yalta conference: stalin, roosevelt, and churchill agree that after the unconditional surrender of. Germany, it will be divided into four spheres, as will the capital berlin. European states that border the ussr will be friendly to ussr. 1946: george kennan"s long telegram (published 1947 in foreign affairs magazine as the. 1948-1949: berlin crisis & luftbr cke (airlift) resulting in the division of germany into 2 states: West germany / federal republic of germany / bundesrepublik deutschland and east germany / 1955 austrian state treaty: only time during the cold war the soviets voluntarily cede territory. War in vietnam leads to western (american) recognition of the sino-soviet split; plurality in the socialist world suggests the possibility for leverage / linkage politics and stability. of nato / warsaw pact. Less focus on ideology, more on realpolitik. 1970s: west germany pursues ostpolitik to normalize relations with eastern europe & east.