AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE Topics and Terms - Economics - Bretton Woods - Common Market - GNP (Gross National Produce) - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Oil Embargo 1973 - Arab-Israeli War 1973 - oil wars - stagflation - unionism, welfare benefits - European Community (EC) - the Maastricht Treaty - Science - WWII inventions - atomic energy - computers - “pure and applied science” - Big Science - space race - sputnik - brain drain - Population and Poverty - population control - industrialization, urbanization, attitude changes, modern contraception - First, Second and Third World - rise in births, decline of deaths - women’s movement - Collapse of Communism and the End of the Cold War - Mikhail Gorbachev - INF Treaty - USSR’s war in Afghanistan - perestroika - glasnost - Congress of People’s Deputies 1989 - Solidarity - Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia - fall of the Berlin Wall - revolution in Romania - Germany’s re-unification - Cold War over November 1990 - Charter for a New Europe - Boris Yeltsin - independence of Croatia, Slovenia - from Yugoslavia - Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) - Communist coup attempt - independence of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - Commonwealth of Independent States - ethnic rivalries in the Balkans - World Court in the Hague - 1st Gulf War - Society - class distinctions now blurred - consumer culture - new products, new career opportunities - Baby Boomers - prosperous - higher educated - rebellious - rock music - drugs - loose sexual attitudes - materialistic - anti-war student radicalism - more women in the workforce - more divorces? - birth control - Simone de Beauvoir - Betty Friedan - feminism - Recent Developments - economic change - Western Europe (but not Great Britain) - Monetary union - Germany - Willy Brandt - united but with complications - Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic join NATO - ethnic cleansing in the Balkans - Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Kosovars, Montenegrins, Albanians - Slobodan Milosevic - Russia - faltering economy - corruption during Yeltsin’s tenure - Chechnya - Vladimir Putin - detente - 9/11 terrorist attacks - international era - religious fanaticism - Muslim - Christian - Hindu - Israelis and Palestinians