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Domestic policies in the USSR fluctuate . . .

Allies of the US do much better economically, esp. in the 1950s & 1960s The USSR and the Soviet Bloc (aka Soviet Satellite) Countries fall behind. Domestic policies in the USSR fluctuate. Nikita Khrushchev (1953-64). “I won the Nobel prize for literature, what was your crime?.

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Domestic policies in the USSR fluctuate . . .

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  1. Allies of the US do much better economically, esp. in the 1950s & 1960sThe USSR and the Soviet Bloc (aka Soviet Satellite) Countries fall behind

  2. Domestic policies in the USSR fluctuate . . .

  3. Nikita Khrushchev (1953-64)

  4. “I won the Nobel prize for literature, what was your crime?

  5. Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982) • Coercion to be loyal to the government – those who followed the rules were rewarded

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

  7. Czechoslovakia, 1948

  8. Polish Spring, 1956

  9. Hungary, 1956

  10. 1959 – Inner German Barrier

  11. 1961 – Berlin Wall August 13, 1961

  12. 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis

  13. Prague Spring, 1968Brezhnev Doctrine

  14. Science oriented toward war and space and coordinated by the government (“Big Science”)

  15. 1961

  16. 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

  17. 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)

  18. Western Europe takes major steps towards economic unity . . . and smaller steps towards political unity

  19. Euratom – European Atomic Energy Community – coordinates research and knowledge of nuclear energy Paul Henri Spaak was the first president of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community

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

  21. 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

  22. US – USSR relations ease a bit under Brezhnev

  23. Detente – 1969-1980

  24. US– Britain – Germany relations grow closer, getting ready to stand up to the USSR

  25. Thatcher Reagan Kohl (1979-90) (1981-89) (1982-98)

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