1. Ch. 18.2 The Industrialized Democracies

2. America Prospers
Dollar was world’s strongest currency
Headquarters of U.N was in NYC
Foreign trade because of destruction

3. Many Americans prospered
Movement to suburbs and the sunbelt
Action movies/ Elvis
Increase in government programs

4. Oil shock
Early 1970’s political crisis in Middle East
Prices increased
Recession in 1974

5. Democracy Expands Opportunities
Minorities and women demanded equality
Legal segregation
Discrimination
Truman-desegregated military

6. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 “I have a dream”
Civil rights movement
Laws were changed

7. Women’s rights movement
Under JFK and LBJ, Medicare, housing for poor
1980’s Reagan called for cutbacks on spending

8. Military spending increased
Increased national budget deficit
More cuts

9. Western Europe Rebuilds
40yrs. Of difference in Germany
Shot if they tried to cross
1990 German unification
W. Germany booming industry

10. Britain abandoned its colonial empire
Recovered in 50’s/60’s
Social benefits to citizens
Welfare state
Pensions and unemployment

11. Higher taxes
Margaret Thatcher led the conservatives in Britain
European Coal and Steel Community
European Economic Community

12. Japan Is Transformed
Most devastating damage
Gen. Douglas MacArthur assumed all of the power from the emperor
Parliamentary democracy
Education for all
Rights to women

13. Land reform program
1952 U.S. left
Trading partners
Liberal Democratic Party
Democracy in Japan
GDP soared
Exports