Negotiation and compromise
What Negotiation and compromise means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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By the 1970s the state opened a dialogue with the church, and the 1978 meeting between Honecker and church leaders led to concessions.
The shift from repression to talks between 1989 and 1991, in which apartheid was negotiated away.
Topics that use Negotiation and compromise
- Life in East Germany, 1949–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Paper 2, Option 2F.2: South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’ - 4 The end of apartheid and the creation of the ‘rainbow nation’, 1984–94 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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