CHAPTER 27 Redefining the West After World War

CHAPTER 27 Redefining the West After World War II The West Encounters and Transformations Levack/Muir/Veldman/Maas Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II I. A Dubious Peace, 1945 -1949 II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War III. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1950's and 1960's IV. The West: Consensus, Consumption, and Culture Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II I. A Dubious Peace, 1945 -1949 A. Devastation, Death and Continuing War Czechoslovakia Purges, 1945 -1948 Yugoslavia Tito Greece Civil War, to 1949 Displaced Persons Deportations Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II B. Cold War 1943 -1945 Big Three United Nations Tehran, 1943 First Big Three summit D-Day Bretton Woods Agreement, 1944 International Monetary Fund World Bank Dollar as reserve currency Yalta, February, 1945 (Russia controls Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary) Potsdam, July, 1945 Stalin Harry Truman (1884 -1972) Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister Ernest Bevin (1881 -1951) Foreign Secretary Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II I. A Dubious Peace, 1945 -1949 B. Cold War 1946 -1949, Divisions Truman Doctrine, 1947 Containment Plan Marshall George Marshall (1880 -1959) Secretary of State Alignment 1949, New West and East Germany NATO, 1949 (Warsaw Pact, 1955) Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War A. End of Empires Burma Aung San (1915 -1947) India Subhas Chandra Bose (1897 -1945) National Army, WWII Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876 -1948) Palestine Israel, 1948 Ghana Kwame Nkrumah (1957 -1966) Kenya Jomo Kenyatta (19631978) Indochina Ho Chi Minh (18901969) Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War (A. End of Empires) Kenya Jomo Kenyatta (1963 -1978) Indochina Ho Chi Minh (1890 -1969) French defeated, 1954 Algeria Franco. Algerian War, 1954 -1962 Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War B. Legacy of Empire American Civil Rights Movement NAACP, 1910 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 -1968) South Africa Afrikaner Nationalist Party from 1948 Apartheid "No Trial" Act, 1963 Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War C. Extension of the Cold War Korean War, 1950 -1953 1950, North Korea invades South Korea 1953 -1960 Dwight Eisenhower (18901969) "Roll Back" of communism Nikita Krushchev (19551964) Sputnik, 1957 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War C. Extension of the Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall, 1961 John F. Kennedy (19611963) Fidel Castro (1926 - ) Missile Bases Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 Vietnam French Defeat, 1954 > Civil War North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Support of China and Soviet Union South Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Vietnam Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War C. Extension of the Cold War Middle East Egypt Gamel Abdel Nasser Israel Six-Day War, 1967 Israel takes Sinai, West Bank, Golan Heights Third World Indonesia Ahmed Sukarno (1949 -1966) Bandung Conference, 1955 "Nonaligned" Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II II. The West and the World: Decolonization and the Cold War C. Extension of the Cold War Third World Indonesia Ahmed Sukarno (1949 -1966) Bandung Conference, 1955 "Nonaligned" Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II III. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1950 s and 1960 s A. From Stalinism to De-Stalinization Chechens Deportations Labor camps Nikita Kruschev In power by 1955 "Secret Speech", 1956 Condemns Stalin Prisoners freed 4. 5 million Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Gulag Archipelago" B. Leonid Brezhnev (1906 -1982) Economic stagnation "Re-stalinization" Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II III. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1950 s and 1960 s C. Eastern Europe Poland Protests, 1956 Wadisaw Gomuka (1905 - 1982) Hungary Imre Nagy (1896 -1958) Rising, October 31, 1956 Crushed by Red Army Nagy executed, 1958 János Kádár (1912 -1989) Romania (1901 -1965) Gheorghe Gheorhiu-Dei Nicolai Ceaucecu 1992) Prague Spring Alexander Dubek (1921 Spread of freedoms 1956 destroyed Soviet troops in, August, Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Prague Spring Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II IV. The West: Consensus, Consumption, and Culture A. Democracy France C. Culture Samuel Beckett (1906 -1989) Waiting for Godot, 1952 Jean Monnet (1888 -1979) Planning Commission Christian Democratic Parties 1950's, 1960's B. Economic Union Jean Monnett Alberto Giacometti (1901 -1966) Man Pointing, 1947 Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock (1912 -1956) William Golding (1911 -1993) Lord of the Flies, 1954 Claude Levi-Strauss (1908 - ) Paul-Henri Spaak (18991972) Belgian Prime Minister European Coal and Steel Community, 1952 France, Germany, Italy, Benelux European Economic Community, 1957 (Common Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007

Chapter 27: Redefining the West After World War II IV. The West: Consensus, Consumption, and Culture D. Science and Religion Francis Crick (1916 -2004) James Watson (1928 - ) DNA Penicillin Jonas Salk Polio vaccine Catholic Church Second Vatican Council, 1963 Pope John XXIII (1958 -1963) Paul VI (1963 -1978) E. Society Americanization Gaullism independent course Immigration by 1970's, 9 million Women Simone de Beauvoir (1908 -1986) The Second Sex, 1949 Pope Pius XII (1939 -1958) Doctrine of the Assumption, 1950 Hannah Gavron (1944 - ) The Captive Wife, 1966 Betty Friedan (1921 -2006) The Feminine Mystique, 1963 Protest New Left Herbert Marcuse (1898 -1979) Levack et al. , The West: Encounters and Transformations Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Longman, Copyright 2007