3.2.1

Three Things that I have learned:

1. One major result of the victory of social democrats was the policy of detente.
2. We also learned that the first supermarket style grocery store was in Florence.
3.The small east German car produced between 1963 and 1990 was one of the best known symbols of everyday life in East Germany.

Two things that interested me:
1. The second sex inspired s generation of women intellectuals and by the 1960 it was the bases of the feminist movements.

2.In 1966 Betty Friedan helped found the National Organization for Women also known as NOW.

One question I still have:
Why did the student of the 1968 riots use rocks did the rocks actually symbolize something ? Did the riots eventually become violent.

Rachel Fatherly

Two Art Pieces of the Period

Artist Name: Unknown

Artwork Name: Unknown

Relevance:  This picture illustrates the intense cold war relations between the U.S and Soviet Union during the 1960’s. During this time the threat of nuclear war was seemingly imminent between the two nations as threats to fire nuclear weapons continued to grow stronger.

 

Artist Name: Unknown

Artwork Name: “Speak Out Against the War”

Relevance:   This picture was drawn in protest of the Vietnam War

Alec Howard

Two Connections Across Time

Connections Across Time
 Just as the  Vietman War recieved heavy criticism and protest, so too does the war in Iraq today.  The picture above displays an anti-war rally that was taking place in Chicago.
 

The Greenpeace environmental protection group which started in 1971 still continues to be relevant today and has grown to be a global organization.  In recent years with the fears of global warming becoming a popular issue Greenpeace has become just as if not more well-known and publicized than they were when they first began.

Alec Howard

Picturing From the Past:

Student Recllion in Paris:

The photograph is a picture of students in the Latin Quater of Paris throwing rocks. They are trying to inforce education reformsa and topple de Gauue's governement. This was an famous invent of protest movements. The rioters and Frances police clashed repeatedly during this day.

Background:

In European and American cities students and other organized massive reforms against war and soon extended their protest to support colonial independence movement. They demanded to end nuclear arm race and to gain world peace and liberation from social conventions.

On May 1968 in France the students took over the university of Paris. The students held posters saying "The Power to the Imagination".
"Be realistic, demand the impossible, and Beneath the paving stone, the beach".
 At the end of the night they ended up arresting 460 students.

 Short Video :Student rebellions in Paris 1968

Analyze the Image:
Does the photo show a good impression on whats going on ? What is the attitude in the photo?
Connections:
Why do you believe students threw rocks to express their beliefs? Do you think anything was accomplished out of this?

Shanta Andrews Every

Connection Across Continents:

Bill Gates creates Microsoft.
The idea of microsoft first came to Paul Allen and Bill Gates in the year of 1975, after reading an issue of Popular Mechanics. This simple idea grew into something they would've never imagined. The gross income of Microsoft in 1975 was 1 million dollars. Microsoft word was released in 1983 and this allowed the display of bold text. With the release of the Disc Operating System, or DOS for short, came the companies great success and allowed Microsoft to become the only computer operating company to offer the operating system, programming language, and application software. Microsoft dominated the corporate market, and spread worldwide. Now almost every computer uses some sort of application that Microsoft once created. Continents can now be connected through technology and the interweb.

"Tear Down This Wall"
In 1961, the Berlin wall was a symbol for communism. It divided West Berlin from East Berlin. ON June 12th, 1987 President Ronald Reagan led a speech and challenged Mikhail Gorbechev to "tear down this wall". This challenge resounded world-wide. Tearing down the wall resemembled Gorbechevs desire for increasing freedom in the East Bloc. These four words are to be know as Reagans most famous. These showed the United State's fight against communism still remained and that it was time to end. In 1989, the wall was finally tore down.

Brooke Dawson

Three Important Individuals in Society

The first important individual in society would be Betty Friedan she was an american writer. She wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963. This novel expressed the important aspect of a womens domestic life and helped to initate the feminist movement. In 1966 she helped found the organization called NOW which was traditionally known as the National Organization for women. This group pressed for women rights and equality. She realize there was seperation and just wanted everyone to be treated equally depsite their sexuality.

Famous Quote: "A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. "

Another important individual would be Jean - Marie Le Pen. He should be recongnized because he was the founder of the French National Front. He oppossed European integration and promised to return all traditional custom back to normal. The working population increased.

Famous Quotes:

"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."

"After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. "

The last important individual in the society would have to be Mikhail Gorbachev. He used various reforms and policies in which helped transform and restructure the economy in order to provide for the real needs of the Soviet population. In order to accomplish such a tedious task he beleived that perestrokia and glasnot were the key. Eventually he applied new politcal thinking to a field of foreign affairs and acted on them.

Rachel Fatherly

Famous Quote:"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. "

Introduction:

 Introduction:

As Europe entered the 1960s, things were stable and the living standards were rising in all of the levels of society. By the late 1960s and 1970s, however the advancements come to a slop. These years also saw the fall of communism in the Soviet Union as the Cold War came to an end.

Chapter Objective:

Through this blog we hope to inform others on the historic events which took place between 1960-1991 and the impact they had on the western society.

EQ:

How was the postwar consensus in the 1950's affected by social and political changes of the 1960's?

It brought criticism from the younger generation who was sparked by a more liberalized society due to the shift to the New Left.

 Key Terms:

detente -960

New Left -963

Brezhnev Doctrine-970

OPEC-971

stagflation-971

postindustrial society -971

neoliberalism-972

really existing socialism-980

solidarity-982

perestroika-984

glasnost-984

shock therapy-987

Sam Person