STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 29:
POSTWAR RECOVERY AND THE NEW EUROPE TO 1989
|
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 |
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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 |
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perestroika |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Boris Yeltsin |
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detente |
Ray Medvedev |
Andrei Sakharov |
|
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
“Velvet revolution” |
Samizdat |
|
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) |
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KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
|
Subcarpathian Ukraine (Ruthenia) |
Elbe River |
Sri Lanka |
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Myanmar |
Vietnam |
Israel |
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Zaire |
Zimbabwe |
Iran |
|
Frankfurt |
Dusseldorf |
Turkey |
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Syria |
Persian Gulf |
Suez
Canal |
Iceland |
Ghana
|
Pakistan
|
|
Federal Republic of Germany |
Ceylon |
Kenya |
|
German Democratic Republic |
Dresden |
Guatemala |
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?