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What made Ostpolitik possible? - Coggle Diagram
What made Ostpolitik possible?
2 Leaders of the respective powers WB + EH
Form a CR alongside SP detente
M T '70
USSR + FRG no territorial claims
FRG abandoned HD (open relations with EE)
Still don't recognise GDR
IB of Poland
W/P T '70
Reinforcing IB of Poland
Ger. living in P could return to FRG
B A '71
Soviets anxious to make concessions but S-S S + Nixon rapr. made them more responsive
Un T between FRG + WB
WB now not legal part of FRG
B T '72
Germanies recognised each other as equal
Represented at UN (by end of '73) with ER and recog. of Sov of FRG + GDR
H A '73-75
'questions related to security of Europe' = P S of disputes, non-interference in IA + IB
'co-operation in field of economics, science and technology' = T + I coop
'co-operation in humanitarian and other fields' = Freer MoP
Reunification
'letter on German reunification' helped reunif.
In-violable agreements
FRG accept post-45 borders and existence of GDR + USSR
Stops B D
'B M'
Rep. in each SOI, breakdown in BM
H R
H A '75 human rights meant that people could protect com. leaders