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Germany 1989

Turning Points Series List

General Editor: Keith Robbins

ViceChancellor, University of Wales Lampeter

THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 19081923

A. L. Macfie

THE PARIS COMMUNE 1871

Robert Tombs

THE BOMB

Dr D. B. G. Heuser

THE FALL OF FRANCE, 1940

Andrew Shennan

ENGLANDS MARITIME EMPIRE

David Loades

THE GREAT TREKS

Norman Etherington

THE OIL CRISIS

Fiona Venn

GERMANY 1989

Lothar Kettenacker

ENDING APARTHEID

Jack Spence

THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, 1453

Michael Angold

INDIA 1857

Dr J. Coohill

Germany 1989

In the aftermath of the Cold War

Lothar Kettenacker

First published 2009 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-41897-4 (pbk)

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Kettenacker, Lothar.

Germany 1989 : in the aftermath of the Cold War / Lothar Kettenacker. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-582-41897-4 (pbk.)

1. GermanyHistoryUnification, 1990. I. Title.

DD290.25.K488 2009

943.0878dc22

2009001846

I. The Period of Dtente (19701989)

1970

19 March	Chancellor Willy Brandt and GDR Prime Minister Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (East Germany)
21 May	Meeting of Brandt and Stoph in Kassel (West Germany)
12 August	Treaty between FRG and USSR, signed in Moscow

1971

3 May	Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as leader of the SED
3 September	Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin
17 December	Agreement between the FRG and the GDR on transit traffic between FRG and Berlin (West)

1972

26 May	Treaty between the FRG and the GDR on traffic questions
21 December	Treaty on the Basis of Relations between the FRG and the GDR (Grundlagenvertrag)

1973

18 September

The FRG and the GDR join the United Nations

1974

2 May	The FRG and the GDR set up Permanent Representations (kind of embassies) in each others capital
12 December	Trade agreement between the two states on Swing, i.e. an upper limit for import credits of the GDR, which will be extended in the future
20 December	Old age pensioners from the West to be freed from obligatory currency exchange as well as further easing of travel restrictions

1975

1 August

Both states sign Helsinki Final Act (CSCE), with Basket III on human rights

1976

16 November

Critical song-writer Wolf Biermann expelled

1977

26 September

Honecker defends Intershops because of the need for DM

1978

6 March	Crucial meeting between Honecker and leadership of GDR Protestant Church (Bund der Evangelischen Kirchen)
1 June	SED informs Protestant Church about introduction of Sozialistische Wehrerziehung (Socialist military education)
16 November	Agreement on motorway BerlinHamburg and transit payments

1979

12 December

NATO Council decides to deploy new range of nuclear missiles (dual track decision)

1980

3 July	West German minister Egon Franke tells public about freedom bought for 13,000 political prisoners of the GDR
13 October	Honeckers Gera Demands (inter alia recognition of GDR citizenship which meets refusal by FRG)
9 November	First Peace Decade of young members of the Protestant Church

1981

1213 December

Chancellor Helmut Schmidt meets Honecker at Lake Werbellin

1982

15 February	Further easing of travel restrictions for East Germans visiting relations in the West on important family occasions
18 March	First official meeting between Volkskammer MPs and SPD deputies
1 October	Helmut Kohl succeeds Schmidt as chancellor following a vote in the Bundestag

1983

29 June	Federal government guarantees billion DM credit to GDR
24 July	Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss meets Honecker

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