EUH1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Willy Brandt, Eastern Bloc, Rudi Dutschke
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After rapid economic growth, the right-winged christian democrats lost power to the social democrats across europe (british labour party, willy brandt first social democratic chancellor of germany). As the cold war raged on, the social democrats issued a policy of d tente or the progressive relaxation of. West german willy brandt signed a treaty of reconciliation with poland. Brandt"s policy of reconciliation dubbed ostpolitik aimed to create a comprehensive peace settlement for. Brandt"s negotiations with the ussr, ukraine, poland, and czechoslovakia formally accepted state boundaries in exchange for the removal of force. Brandt also put w. germany in direct contact with e. germany for the first time. Brandt sought practical improvements rather than reunification. D tente reached its peak with the final act of the helsinki conference. Participating nations agreed that europe"s existing political frontiers couldn"t be changed by force. Agreed to guarantee human rights/political freedoms (except, not really in the east).
