HIST 304 Lecture : Lecture-German Reunification and the End of the Soviet Union .doc
13 Apr 2012
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I. pressure from the street and economic collapse of the gdr: with the fall of the wall, 1/4 of the population visit west germany but don"t flee. Largely due that the wall would stay open and there wasn"t a need: honecker was forced to resign and krenz in power, he wrote a damning speech how the gdr for the last 45 years. Parliament finally took legislative power and elected a new pm: modron: the party are trying to shake events but it is the opposite. The people want reform and the lower party members go after the party. The party dissolved the party eventually: some of the young, form another party which takes up many of the assets of the old par- ty. Lecture 26: german reunification and the end of the soviet union: german-german reunification 1990, two elements, revolution driven by street and economic.
