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Détente and Social ChangeHistory 104 / April 24, 2013
Willy BrandtWest German Chancellor,1969-1974
here: kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto
monument, Dec. 1970
The Helsinki Conference, 1975:the high point of détente
here: East and West German leadershold a conversation across the aisle
The oil shock, 1973:long lines for gas in
the United States
The oil shock, 1973:empty highways in Germany during a
Sunday driving ban
Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s(right: one of several kidnapping victims, later murdered)
Italy’s Red Brigades kidnap and murderformer Prime Minister Aldo Moro (1978)
Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime Minister,
1979-1990
The G-7, a consultation mechanism for the major industrial powers(here: meeting in Bonn, 1978, with the head of the EU)
Green movements:against nuclear power, acid rain,
genetically modified foods
Moral bankruptcy:citizens spy on one another
for the security services(KGB, Stasi, etc.)
Economic bankruptcy: unsustainable benefits
Economic bankruptcy: environmental devastation
(here: open-face coal mining in East Germany)
The Chernobyl reactor leak(April 1986)
Competing identities: nationalism
(here, East German protesters insist that they are one people with West Germans)
Competing identities:religion
(esp. Catholicism in Poland)
The Solidarity movement in Poland
(1980-89)
Lech Walesa(1943- )
Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms in the USSR
(1985-1991)
Nov. 9, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall
Aug. 1991: Yeltsin helps to bring down the Soviet Union