STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 29:

 

POSTWAR RECOVERY AND THE NEW EUROPE TO 1989

 

 

 

TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

 

European Coal and Steel Community

welfare state

Benelux

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Sputnik I

arms race

Office of European Economic Cooperation

Benjamin Spock

Ronald Reagan

sexual revolution

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Simone de Beauvoir

Betty Friedan

birth control

pronatalism

Jean Monnet

Robert Schuman

George C. Marshall

Council of Europe

Schuman Plan

European Economic Community

George Orwell

Leonid Brezhnev

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

generation gap

glasnost

perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev

Boris Yeltsin

detente

Ray Medvedev

Andrei Sakharov

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Velvet revolution”

Samizdat

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

 

 

 

 

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

 

Subcarpathian Ukraine (Ruthenia)

Elbe River

Sri Lanka

Myanmar

Vietnam

Israel

Zaire

Zimbabwe

Iran

Frankfurt

Dusseldorf

Turkey

Syria

Persian Gulf

Suez Canal

Iceland

Ghana

Pakistan

Federal Republic of Germany

Ceylon

Kenya

German Democratic Republic

Dresden

Guatemala

           

 

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

 

1.         What did Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir have to say about the plight of women?  How might their views differ from government policies of pronatalism?

 

3.         How did the rise of the welfare state affect social life in postwar Europe?

 

4.         What led to the creation of a distinct “youth culture” in the 1960s and after? 

 

5.         In what ways did western Europe move towards economic, political, military, and to some extent cultural integration?  What factors blocked further integration?

 

5.         What factors contributed to the rise of Gorbachev in the USSR?  Did he intend to rebuild communism or dismantle it?  What effects did his policies have, both within the Soviet Union and without?