History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 16, 2005  

PROSPERITY AT LAST?

Europe in the 1950s & early 1960s  

TERMS TO KNOW:

  1. Europe’s “unprecedented boom”
  2. Welfare State
  3. Rise in population
  4. Poujadism
  5. “Affluent society”
  6. Ilya Ehrenburg, The Thaw (1954)
  7. Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
  8. Ludwig Ehrhard
  9. French elections of 1962
  10. Harold Wilson
  11. Meritocracy
  12. “conservative socialism”
  13. European Coal & Steel Community (1951)
  14. Treaty of Rome (1958)
  15. British application to join EU (1963; 1967)

QUESTIONS  

  1. In the 1950s, and into the 1960s, the Cold War continued to dominate the news.  Some of the most dramatic Cold War events from those years were:

·        1956: the Hungarian Insurrection

·        1961: the building of the Berlin Wall

·        1962: the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What were these events?  Why didn’t they lead to World War III?  

  1. The Cold War dominated the news, but according to Wilkinson, what were the key trends in European society in the 1950s & early ‘60s? 

 

 

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