1. Top Eleven Topics from Chapter 30

2. 1. Most of the world divides up between the US (tend to be democracies) and the USSR (dictatorships)

3. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 1949 Warsaw Pact (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance – COMECON) 1955

5. U.S. Philosophy of Containment “Like apples in a barrel infected by disease, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all the east... likewise Africa... Italy... France....Not since Rome and Carthage had there been such a polarization of power on this earth” -- U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson

6. 2. Allies of the US do much better economically, esp. in the 1950s & 1960s

8. 3. Western Europe takes major steps towards economic unity

9. European Economic Community 1952 6 members 1973 9 members 1981 10 members 1986 12 members

10. 4. Decolonization (politically, but not so much economically and culturally)

12. 5. Domestic policies in the USSR fluctuate...

14. Nikita Khrushchev (1953-64)

15. Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)

16. 6....but the USSR retains tight control over its satellite states

18. Czechoslovakia, 1948

19. Hungary, 1956

20. August 31, 1961

24. Prague Spring, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine

26. 7. Science oriented toward war and space (“Big Science”)

29. 8. Class structure becomes less divided Greater accessibility of college gives more people educational opportunities Service industry greatly expanded (more white collar than blue collar) Government programs redistributed wealth: welfare, pensions Most people could afford appliances and cars Most people could afford vacations

30. 9. Women demand more rights, students demand respect More women in the workforce, where they faced discrimination Demanding equal pay, maternity leave, day care, right to divorce, legalized abortion, protection from and prosecution of rape Students living a very different lifestyle (sex, drugs and rock n’ roll) but demanding respect as adults (there are a lot of people in the generation, it is the baby boom)

31. 10. 1970s bring economic difficulties US spent too much (Marshall Plan, welfare programs, Korean and Vietnam wars) OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) embargoed oil sales to the US when the US supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war of 1973 Austerity measures

32. 11. US – USSR relations ease a bit US– Britain – Germany relations grow closer

33. Detante

34. Conservative Alliance: Thatcher, Reagan, Kohl