Chapter 29 - Challenging the Postwar Order Name: I. Reform and Protest in the 1960's a. Cold War Tensions Thaw What was "détente"? How did West German chancellor Willie Brandt work towards postwar reconcilliation? What was the final act of the Helsinki Conference? b. The Affluent Society Discuss changes in lifestyles during the Age of Affluence What were critics concerned about?
c. The Growing Counterculture Movement Discuss the "New Left" movement d. The United States and Vietnam Why was the US involved in Vietnam? What was the American public reaction to American presence in Vietnam? e. Student Revolts in 1968 Describe the events that took place in France, May 1968. What were the results?
f. The 1960's in the East Bloc Discuss the atttempt at reform in Czechoslovakia. How did the Soviet Union react? What is the Brezhnev Doctrine? What did it prove?
II. Changing Consensus in Western Europe a. Economic Crisis and Hardship What was the European Economic Community (EEC)? What changes in the postindustrial society of Europe wreaked havoc on the EEC? b. The Conservative Backlash What is Neoliberalism? What changes did neoliberaists call for? Who was Margaret Thatcher? What reforms did she make?
Who was Helmu Kohl? What reforms did he make? Who was Francois Mitterand? How were hi policies differnet from those of Thatcher and Kohl? What was the result? c. Challenges and Victories for Women What three reasons accounted for the feminist movement of the 1970's? 1-2 - 3 -
BOOK (Year) Simone de Beauvoir Betty Friedan Contribution to women's movement What issues did women's movements seek to address? d. The Rise of the Environmental Movement Examples of environmental degradation: Solutions to the problems:
e. Separatism and Right-Wing Extremism How did separatist groups try to create change? What is the IRA? Discontent in Ireland? Bloody Sunday? "the Troubles"
III. The Decline of "Really Existing Socialism" a. State and Society in the East Bloc What were the accomplishments of "really existing socialism" in the Soviet Union and Eat Bloc? What problems did common people encounter in the East Bloc as a result of socialism? Discuss the problems with: women economy education
b. Reform Movements in Czechoslovakia and Poland How did East Bloc countries try to reform their countries in the 1970's? Describe events in Czechoslovakia in 1977. Poland: Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk Lech Walesa Solidarity What impacts did the strength of Solidarity have on eastern Europeans?
c. From Détente Back to Cold War How did the Soviet Union threaten détente in the 1970's? How did the west respond? d. Gorbachev's Reforms in the Soviet Union Perestroika Impacts Glasnost Democritization
Discuss the changes Gorbachev made in foreign policy IV. The Revolution of 1989 a. The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe Discuss the collapse of communist control in Poland in the 1980's. How did reform in Hungary lead to tearing down of the Berlin Wall?
Czechoslovakia Romania b. German Unification and the End of the Cold War What three factors contributed to East Germany being "absorbed" into West Germany? Why was Gorbachev concerned with German unification? How was this resolved?
What was the Paris Accord? c. The Disintegration of the Soviet Union Who was Boris Yeltsin? What were his goals? What happened to the Soviet Union?