CHAPTER 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965 |
I. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War |
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A. The Legacies of the Second World War |
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1. Physical Destruction |
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2. Death Tolls |
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3. Displaced Persons (DPs) and the
Homeless |
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4. War Crimes |
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B. The Peace Settlement and Cold War Origins |
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1. Early Discussions |
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2. The Tehran Conference (November
1943) |
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3. The Yalta Conference (February
1945) |
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4.
The Breakdown of Yalta |
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C. West Versus East |
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1. Rising Antagonisms |
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2. The Truman Doctrine |
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3. The Marshall Plan |
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4. The Berlin
Blockade |
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5. NATO and the
Warsaw Pact |
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6. The Cold War
in Asia |
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D. Big Science in the Nuclear Age |
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1. Applied Science in WWII |
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2. Big Science |
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3. Achievements |
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4.
Benefits
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II. Recovery in Western Europe |
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A. The Search for Political and Social
Consensus |
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1. The Postwar Economic Boom |
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2. Christian Democratic Parties |
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3. The Labour Party |
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B. Toward European Unity |
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1. Early Steps Towards Unity |
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2. European Coal and Steel Community
(1951) |
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3. The European Economic
Community |
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C. The Consumer Revolution |
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1. The Postwar Boom |
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2. The Cold War Context
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III. Developments in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc |
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A. Postwar Life in the East Bloc |
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1. The Return to Dictatorship |
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2. Stalinization in Eastern
Europe |
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3. Establishing Planned
Economies |
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4.
Censorship and Opposition |
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B. Reform and De-Stalinization |
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1. The Death of Stalin (1953) |
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2. Nikita Khrushchev
(1894–1971) |
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3. De-Stalinization |
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4. Boris
Pasternak (1890–1960) |
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5. Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) |
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C. Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion |
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1. “Peaceful Coexistence” |
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2. Reform in Poland |
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3. The Hungarian Revolt (1956) |
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D. The Limits of Reform |
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1. The Berlin Crises |
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2. The Cuban Missile Crisis
(1962) |
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3. Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)
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IV. The End of Empires |
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A. Decolonization and the Global Cold War |
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1. Imperial Collapse |
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2. The Impact of the Cold War |
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3. Nonalignment |
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B. The Struggle for Power in Asia |
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1. Indonesia |
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2. French Indochina |
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3. India |
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4.
China |
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C. Independence and Conflict in the Middle
East |
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1. The Arab-Israeli Conflict |
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2. Gamel Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) |
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3. The Suez Crisis (1956) |
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D. Decolonization in Africa |
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1. British Colonies |
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2. The Belgian Congo |
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3. French Colonies |
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4. The Algerian
War |
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5. Continued
European Presence
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V. Postwar Social Transformations |
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A. Changing Class Structures |
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1. The Middle Class |
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2. Class Leveling in the East Bloc |
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3. The Lower Classes |
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B. Patterns of Postwar Migration |
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1. Migration Within National
Borders |
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2. Migration from South to
North |
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3. Post-colonial Migration |
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4.
Tensions |
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C. New Roles for Women |
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1. Declining Birthrates |
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2. The Workplace |
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3. Challenges |
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D. Youth Culture and the Generation Gap |
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1.Youth Cultures |
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2. Consumption |
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3. Higher Education |