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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Big science | 1945-1965. The results of research in World War II. A meeting between theoretical work and sophisticated engineering. Led prominantly by the US but experienced in Europe and Japan as well. |
| social classes | ---- |
| gadget revolution | ----- |
| baby boom | people born in the US between 1946 and 1964; this post-war era allowed for better education, employment, peace and prosperity - increasing higher rates of both marriage and fertility. |
| children | ----- |
| women employment | Female employment grew slowly in the 1920s, mostly in occupations traditionally identified with women — office and social work, teaching, nursing, and apparel manufacturing — and women who worked were usually single, divorced, or widowed |
| youth culture | In the first half of the 20th century, high school attendance doubled and college attendance tripled. Youth began to develop a culture and identity all their own |
| paris 1968 | students/workers protest- 10 million shut down government and dissolve parliament |
| detente | relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China |
| brandt | German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992) |
| West Germany | The Democratic side of Germany after WWII, better to live here |
| East Germany | The part of Germany occupied by Soviets and it contained Berlin and Berlin Wall; communist; people were not allowed to leave freely |
| Helsinki | Capital and largest city of Finland, 25% of population lives there |
| Helsinki Final act | signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. |
| Afghanistan | USSR invade in 1979, leading to the US boycott of the 1980 summer olympics |
| conservatives | --- |
| tharcher | --- |
| Kohl | German Statesman and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Strong commitment to Nato and EU |
| monetary crisis | When a state's currency decreases in value because of imports. |
| oil crisis | 1970 political crisis in the middle east made world wide gas prices soar and people freaked |
| opec | An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960 |
| mitterand | He served in both the Vichy Regime and the French Resistance during WW2, president of france from 1981 to 1995 |
| de Beauvoir | said women are defined as other; men are the norm, mankind not humankind. Language sets up a way we view the world. |
| greens | in germany, the first major environmentally oriend party; a junior partner in government until 2006 |
| 1970 pessimism | ---- |
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