AP Euro Unit 9 - Everything after 1945

Key Ideas

Cold War
- NATO and US
- WArsaw Pact and Soviet
- Expansion of gov.
Feminism and Existentialism
Globalization and European Integration
Nationalism

Rebuilding Europe
- Marshall Plan
  - economic aid package to Europe
Cold War Europe
- Iron curtain
- tensions high but no war
- Arms race
  - nuclear weapons
  - Age of propaganda
- NATO to protect from Soviet aggression
  - attack on one is an attack on all
- Warsaw Pact (in response to NATO)
  - eastern bloc countries and Soviet sphere of Influence
- Khruvshev
  - de-stalinization
    - leader of Soviets should not be like a dictator
    - gulags dismantled
- Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)
  - any attempt towards capitalism will result in soviet intervention
  - answer to Truman Doctrine (soviet expansion in western hemisphere will be resisted by US)
Nationalism
- IRA - Catholics fighting against British in Ireland
- Yugoslav Wars
Welfare States - provided by gov.
- “Cradle to Grave” Policies
- Universal Healthcare
- Workers’ Insurance
- Ex: British National Health Service
- Healthcare a given, so higher taxes
Fall of Communism
- Glasnost - openness
- Perestroika - restructuing of political system by introducing liberalism
  - open criticism of gov.
- Fall of Berlin Wall
- Fall of Soviet Union
2nd Wave Feminism
- emphasis on economic and social equality
- Simone de Beauvoir writes The Second S3x
  - women seen as other
  - advocating for redefinition of what it means to be women
    - divorce, birth control prevalent
- Maggie Thatcher
  - conservative influence
  - Thatcherism
    - social conservatism
    - euroskepticism
      - think of Brexit
    - anti-union neoliberalism
Self Determination and decolonization
European Union
- Euro
- Parliament that makes laws that applies to all members
Migration and Immigration
Existentialist
- individuals are born without inherent purpose
Continuity of Christianity
- Council of Trent (unit 1)
- Vatican