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Europe and North America

Europe and North America. Chapter 16 World History. Terms to Know. Welfare State: Capitalism and Socialism combined. State takes care of people Service Industry: Health, Ed, Travel, Recreation. Regular industry: India, Japan and India. England. Icon

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Europe and North America

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  1. Europe and North America Chapter 16 World History

  2. Terms to Know • Welfare State: Capitalism and Socialism combined. State takes care of people • Service Industry: Health, Ed, Travel, Recreation. • Regular industry: India, Japan and India

  3. England • Icon • People – Margaret Thatcher-Got England away from welfare state.Privagized industries, curbed power of labor unions • History - Economy

  4. France • Icon-Dead snail • People-Mitterand, de Gaulle, Chirac • Germany for friendship and help • De Gualle tried to reassert French power by developing nuclear power and defying the USA.

  5. Germany • West German • Icon –fleeing from East to West Germany • People Adenuar, Brandt, Kohl • History-Split, West was great, East was awful

  6. The Rest of Europe • Italy is struggling

  7. North America Prospers! • The Cold War caused the US to stop its isolation policy. They used their economic and military might to protect the free world • US/Canada has conflict over industrial pollution

  8. Soviet Union • Krushchev called for peaceful coexistence with the West but used Soviet troops to crush rebellion in Hungary. Increased tension with nuclear buildup • Brezhnev persued détente’ but felt Soviets should be involved in policing Communists states

  9. Soviets continued… • Gorbechev’s goal was reform of politics and economics, end of the Cold War alnd implementing glasnost(openess) and perstroika.(reforming bureaucracy and reducing size of government)

  10. Domination of Eastern Europe • Soviet Union kept its armies in Eastern Europe and backed local Communists. Once in power, these communitst destroyed rival parties, silenced critics, and established governments subservient to the USSR. • Chechnya-USSR comes in, but division is seem among the USSR army/govt.

  11. Final Breakup of the USSR • Tito in Yugoslavia, gained partial independence • Solidarity union in Poland with Lech Walesa* as its leader defied the Kremlin • Berlin Wall torn down, US shows world its status during Desert storm

  12. Eastern Europe joins NATO • Czechoslovakia peacefully splits between the Czech Republic and Slovakia • See Upclose, page 454

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