AP EURO POST-WWII OUTLINE

Originally posted by Tom Richey

A lot of students want to know what content is necessary for them to know after World War II, as
it's often difficult to give that era quality coverage in class before the exam. I cover the main
points in this Live Hangout.
Here's an outline of stuff I covered in this overview:
Cold War
Marshall Plan
NATO / Warsaw Pact
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)
Soviet Leaders
Khrushchev - Peaceful Coexistence / "Cult of Personality" Secret Speech
Brezhnev - Economic stagnation / "Brezhnev Doctrine" Put down rebellions
Gorbechev - Glasnost / Perestroika - Renounced Brezhnev Doctrine
1968 Student Protests
Immigration / Problems with Assimilation
North Africa / Turkey
Guest Workers
1970s - Economic Stagnation
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Existence Precedes Essence
We are condemned to be free
Second Wave Feminism
Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)
Equal Pay / Access to Birth Control
Social Equality vs. Political Equality
Catholic Church
Vatican II (1960s) - Vernacular Mass
Has NOT given the nod to abortion, birth control, ordination of female priests
Anti-communist (JPII), but not necessarily pro-capitalist
Margaret Thatcher (Iron Lady)
First Elected Female Head of Government in History (1979)
Thatcherism
Neo-Liberalism (Economic Policy)
Social Conservatism
Thatcher vs. the Labor Unions
Privatization
Anti-Communist
BFFs with Reagan
Tough Foreign Policy (Falklands War)
Euroscepticism
European Integration
EEC / Coal and Steel, etc.
Treaty of Rome (1960 EEC)
Maastricht Treaty (EU 1992)
The Euro (& Euro Zone)
Free Trade
Schengen Agreement
Euroscepticism
Concerns: Sovereignty, Immigration, Free Trade, Terrorism (more recently)
Notable Eurosceptics

Margaret Thatcher - No. No. No.

UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Geert Wilders (Netherlands) / Party for Freedom (National Liberal / Anti-Islamic)