| CHAPTER 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991 |
| I. Reform and Protest in the 1960s |
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A. Cold War Tensions Thaw |
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1. The Shift to the Left |
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2. Ostpolitik and Détente |
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3. The Helsinki Accords |
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4.
The Welfare States |
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B. The Affluent Society |
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1. Consumer Society |
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2. Fears of Consumerism |
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3. Family Ties |
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C. The Counterculture Movement |
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1. Demographics |
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2. American Inspiration |
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3. The New Left |
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4.
The Sexual Revolution |
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5. Drug Use and Music |
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D. The United States and Vietnam |
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1. American Involvement |
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2. Criticism |
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3. American Withdrawal |
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E. Student Revolts and 1968 |
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1. Demonstrations |
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2. The May Events |
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3. Divisions Within the
Counterculture |
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F. The 1960s in the East Bloc |
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1. Limited Market Economies |
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2. Limited Cultural Freedoms |
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3. The Prague Spring (1968) |
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4.
The Brezhnev Doctrine
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| II. Crisis and Change in Western Europe |
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A. Economic Crisis and Hardship |
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1. Collapse of the International
Monetary System |
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2. OPEC and the Oil Crisis |
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3. Stagflation |
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4.
Towards a Postindustrial Society |
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5. Impact |
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B. The New Conservatism |
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1. Neoliberalism |
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2. Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) |
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3. Ronald Reagan (president
1981—1989) |
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4. Helmut Kohl
(b. 1930) |
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5. François
Mitterand (1916—1996) |
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C. Challenges and Victories for Women |
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1. The Feminist Movement |
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2. The Feminist Critique |
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3.
More Rights for Women |
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D. The Rise of the Environmental Movement |
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1.
Rachel Carson |
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2. The Ecological Agenda |
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3. Environmental Groups |
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E. Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism |
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1. Separatist Movements |
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2. The ETA |
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3. The Provisional Irish Republican
Army (IRA) |
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4.
Right-Wing Extremists
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| III. The Decline of “Developed Socialism” |
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A. State and Society in the East Bloc |
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1. Developed Socialism |
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2. Everyday Life |
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3. Economic Decline |
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4.
The One-Party State |
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B. Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland |
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1. New Approaches |
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2. Václav Havel (1936—2011) |
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3. Karol Wojtyla |
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4.
Solidarity |
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C. From Détente Back to Cold War |
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1. The End of Détente |
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2. The American Response |
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D. Gorbachev's Reforms in the Soviet Union |
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1. Administrative Controls |
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2. Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931) |
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3. Perestroika |
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4. Glasnost |
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5. Additional
Reforms
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| IV. The Revolutions of 1989 |
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A. The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc |
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1. Events in Poland |
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2. Events in Hungary |
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3. Events in East Germany |
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4. The Velvet
Revolution in Czechoslovakia |
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5. Events in
Romania |
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B. German Unification and the End of the Cold
War |
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1. Popular Support |
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2. Helmut Kohl |
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3. International Agreement |
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C. The Disintegration of the Soviet Union |
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1. Electoral Defeats |
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2. Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) |
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3. The Coup |
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4.
The Collapse of the USSR |