Chapter 22 Flashcards

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How many people left Europe from 1945-1960?

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Half a million

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Who was Jean-Marie Le Pen?

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The founder of the 1972 National Front who blamed Muslims from Algeria for crime and unemployment in France

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How did Muslims settle in Europe?

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Unassimilated, difficult to participate in civil life, were not highly skilled, did not speak European languages

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What did the French do with Muslim women wearing headscarves?

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Tried to ban it in secular schools

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European birth trends

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1950s: 2.1, 1980s: 1.9, 1.47 in 2000s, 1.6 now

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Why did birth rates reduce?

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Postponement, economic crisis, caused aging population

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What were Christian Democratic Parties?

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Roman Catholic parties protecting church interests, democracy, economic growth, and opposing communism

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Who was William B. Beveridge?

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A British politician who created social insurance against predictable risks after WWII

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Who was Clement Attlee?

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Created the National Health Service, the British welfare state in 1945

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What was Germany’s welfare state in the 1880s?

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Bismarck’s social insurance to undermine Social Democratic Party

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What was Britain’s social insurance before WWII?

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Along with Germany, only insured against risks from disease, injured, and old age, unployment assumed to be the workers’ fault

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What was Eastern Europe’s welfare states?

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Communism provided social security and full employment

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What was the reconstruction period?

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1945-1950s

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What was the period with steady and expanding economic growth?

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1950s-1970s

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What did the late 1970s have?

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inflation, people believed market should regulate itself w/o gov involvement

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What did the 1990s have?

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Low growth and high employment

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Who was Margaret Thatcher?

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The British Conservative Party Leader who reasserted the importance of markets and resisted labor unions from 1979-1990

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What did Margaret Thatcher do?

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Cut taxes, curbed inflation, privatized industries, caused cost of services and welfare states to increase

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Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

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The most influential post-WWII feminist who published the Second Sex in 1949, exploring women’s different experiences

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What were women’s issues?

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Divorce favored men, spousal abuse had less attention

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What were feminist works and journals?

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1970s Emma and Spare Rib where women pursued independence

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Causes of married women joining workforce

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Single women left, consumer and healthcare improvements made it easier

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Effects of married women joining workforce

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Factories changed work shifts to accommodate needs, reduced housekeeping and childcare

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Age of birth after WWII

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Late 20s in WE, early in EE

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Women under communism
50% had social equality, movement groups were suspicious, free market economy limited maternity benefits
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Events leading to disillusionment with communism
1930s Purges, Spanish Civil War, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Soviet invasion of Hungary
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What is Catalonia?
A 1938 book by George Orwell expressing disappointment with Stalin's party
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What is existentialism?
A post WWII philosophy holding humans responsible for their actions
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Who were Friedrich Nietzche and Soren Kierkegaard?
Foreunners of existentialism
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What did Kierkegaard believe?
Against Hegelian philosophy, philosophy failed to contain everything in abstract categories
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Examples of qustionting reason and rationalism
Jean-Paul Sarte and Albert Camus
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What were some rebellions in the 1960s?
Student protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam and nuclear weapons, Sorbonne students against Charles de Gaulle's government
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Examples of Americanization
Spread of shopping centers, movies, fast food restaurants, automobiles, microwaves, cameras, computers
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Effects of consumerism
Generated discontent towards communism in EE
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When did environmentalism start?
1970s-1980s
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Who were the German Greens?
A 1979 environmentalist political group
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Examples of environmental problems
Arab oil embargo from 1973-1974, dying fish in Thames, Rhine River industrial pollution, acid rain
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What was the Green Movement?
A 1970s anti-capitalist and nuclear environmentalist student movment
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What was Chernobyl?
A 1986 Pripyat power plant explosion
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What was the European Coal and Steel Community?
A 1951 organization formed by France, West Germany, Italy, and Benelux countries for economic cooperation
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What were the Benelux countries?
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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What was the European Economic Community (same members)?
The 1957 organization trying to eliminate tarrifs, freely flow capital and labor, and achieve wage and social benefits
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Effects of the EEC
Abolished tarrifs by 1968, increased labor migration and trade
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What is the European Union?
An organization of 27 states to foster economic stability and democracy
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What is the Maastricht Treaty?
A 1993 Treaty founding the EU
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What is the Euro?
The common currency created by the EEC
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What was the European Constitution?
A 2004 Treaty containing detailed bill of rights and economic agreements
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Reactions to the European Constitution
2005 French and Ducth referendums defeated it, 2008 Irish referndums defeated it
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What caused the discord in the EU?
Stagnated economy, high unemployment, Euro exchange rates unfairly calculated
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What was the Islamic factor?
The consideration for admitting Turkey into the EU because of its larger and poorer population of Muslims
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What happened to U.S. stock markets?
Crashed in 2008, banks couldn't hold unpaid mortages, markets worldwide lost 1/3 or more value
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What is the Eurozone?
Countries using Euro as the official currency
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What happened with Greece's economy during the Eurpean Debt Crisis?
2009 economy was unstable and falsified, had to lower inflation rates to qualify for Euro, deficit was actually twice the amount
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Reaction to European Debt Crisis
investors withdrew Greece, Spain, Protugal, and Ireland, Germany tried to lower deficits on strict policies
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What did U.S. do in the debt Crisis?
Drastically reduced gov. spending, punished working-class Europeans