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Ch 29 Vocabulary Words

Brezhnev Doctrine -the doctrine, enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev, that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if socialism was threatened in another socialilst state; used to justify moving Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968

Détente -the relaxation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States that occurred in the 1970s

Eurocommunism -a form of communism that dropped its Marxist ideology. it was especially favored in Italy

Feminism -the belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes; also, organized activity to advance women's rights

permissive society -a term applied to Western society after WW II to reflect the new sexual freedom and the emergence of a drug culture

Post Modernism -a term used to cover a variety of artistic and intellectual styles and ways of thinking prominent since the 1970s

Stagflation -a combination of high inflation and high unemployment that was prevalent in the US and elsewhere from 1973 to the mid-1980d

welfare state -a sociopolitical system in which the government assumes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens by providing such things as social security, unemployment benefits, and health care

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Ch 29 Identify

University of Nanterre, 1968 -

Permissive society -

The birth control pill -

Marijuana -

Timothy Leary and LSD -

Herbert Marcuse’s //One-Dimensional Man// -

Betty Friedan’s //Feminine Mystique// -

Antiwar Protests and Kent State -

Brezhnev Doctrine -

Lech Walesa and Solidarity -

Hungary’s Janos Kadar -

The Prague Spring -

East Germany’s Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker -

The Berlin Wall -

Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik -

Margaret Thatcher -

Falklands Islands War -

France’s Francois Mitterrand -

Italy’s Eurocommunism -

The European Community / EC -

Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” -

Watergate -

Jimmy Carter and stagflation -

Ayatollah Khomeini and American Hostages -

The “Reagan revolution” -

“supply-side economics” -

Canada’s Pierre Trudeau -

Brian Mulroney -

Second Vietnam War -

The Vietcong -

The domino theory -

Détente -

Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -

The “four olds” -

“permanent revolution” -

The Red Guards -

Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972 -

“equivalence” -

Helsinki Agreements, 1975 -

The “evil empire” -

Strategic Defense Initiative/”Star Wars” -

The space race -

Grace Hopper and COBOL -

EF Schumacher’s //Small is Beautiful// -

Chernobyl, 1986 -

Green Parties -

Postmodernism -

Ferdinand de Saussure and structuralism -

Jacques Derrida and deconstructionism -

Allen Kaprow and “happenings” -

“magic realism” -

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s //One Hundred Years of Solitude// -

Milan Kundera’s //The Unbearable Lightness of Being// -

Oliver Messiaen and serialism -

Philip Glass’s //Einstein on the Beach// -

“peace and love” -

Punk rock -

Hip-hop -

Grandmaster Flash - i

Marshall McLuhan and the “global village” -

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Unit 14 Primary Source Readings Each one teach one

Sources of the Western Tradition – Perry

//Please remember, in order to better understand, the author’s back ground and point of view and the context in which the document was written, you need to read the introduction material provided by the editors of the book.//

//As you read, remember to underline or otherwise make notes of passages that provoke your interest (agree, disagree etc.) Make note of these and bring them up during class discussion.//

Each Member of the Class will be assigned ONE of the readings. They will present an APPARTS analysis of their reading and answer the questions(s) associated with the reading.

Roy Medvedev – STALIN’S LAST YEARS Chang, Wahl What types of people become victims of Stalin’s Terror after WWII?

Milovan Djilas – THE NEW CLASS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM Dinges, Thomas How did Milovan Djilas characterize the “new class”? What were its qualities? How did it wield its power? Why, according to Djilas, would the Communist governments in Eastern Europe sooner or later declare their independence from the Soviet government?

Andor Heller – THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION Wilson, Salters What would you say was the climax of the Budapest demonstration on October 23? What was at stake for the farmers and workers of Hungary in the anti-Soviet uprising? How did the Hungarians in those crucial October days assert their freedom? What evidence of nationalism did you observe in the anti-Soviet demonstrations?

Theodore H. White – “GERMANY IS ALIVE AND VIGOROUS AGAIN” Velez, Plezia What evidence did White see indicating Germany’s revival?

Hannah Vogt – THE BURDEN OF GUILT Pitner According to Vogt, what lessons should the Germans learn from the Nazis? How did she suggest that Germans now confront the Holocaust?

Mikhail S. Gorbachev - //PERESTROIKA Raymond, Nabors// What were the essential ideas in Gorbachev’s plea for “new political thinking”?

Vaclav Havel – THE FAILURE OF COMMUNISM McGee, Medrano What did Havel mean when he said the Czechs had lived in a “spoiled moral environment” for the past forty years?

C.J. Chivers – VLADIMIR PUTIN: A NEW CZAR IN THE KREMLIN? Locascio, Morland In what direction has Putin taken Russia? How does that change affect the United States?

Fareed Zakaria – “DEMOCRACY HAS ITS DARK SIDES” George, Waters According to Zakaria, how has the contemporary world been shaped by democracy? What dos he see as the “dark sides” of democracy?

Walter Laqueur – THE LAST DAYS OF EUROPE: EPITAPH FOR AN OLD CONTINENT Hannon, Maloney How does Laqueur explain the failure of second and third-generation Muslim immigrants to assimilate into West European societies?

Jacques Ellul – THE BETRAYAL OF THE WEST Mayes What is the essential legacy of the West, according to Ellul? How may it be seen as a two-fold heritage, both liberating and tragic? For Ellul, what was the role of the Jews and Christianity in the shaping of the Western Tradition? Of Greeks and Romans?

United States State Department – CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITISM: A REPORT PROVIDED TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS Schwartz, Geis How does the resurgence of anti-Semitism reveal both the persistence of traditional forms of anti-Semitism and a new adaptive anti-Semitism?

Mary Habek – JIHADIST IDEOLOGY Vafiadis, Henderson What are the fundamental components of the of the world-view of Islamic extremists? What are the long and short-term goals of the Islamists? How do you think the world should respond to the jihadists and their revolutionary ideology?

Abdurrahman Wahid – “RIGHT ISLAM VS. WRONG ISLAM: MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT THE WAHHABI IDEOLOGY” Erb, Bryant According to Wahid, why is the Wahhabi/Salafi movement a perversion of true Islamic teaching? How does Wahid propose to counter Islamic extremism?

United Nations Secretary General – ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN “THE SYSTEMATIC DOMINATION OF WOMEN BY MEN” Escobedo List examples of violence against females discussed in the UN study. What traditional practices did the study find particularly harmful?