History Department

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 28, 2005  

BITTER YEARS: the ‘60s & ‘70s  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

1. L. Brezhnev
2. A. Dubcek
3. Two Thousand Words
4. 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
5. Brezhnev Doctrine
6. Andrei Sinyavsky & Yuli Daniel
7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. Andrei Sakharov
9. Poland’s “Flying University”
10. May 1968 in France
11. Willy Brandt
12. “Ostpolitik”
13. Britain’s “winter of discontent”
14. Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland
15. Flemings & Walloons
16. Mediterranean Europe
17. Italy’s “historic compromise”
18. Greek colonels
19. Portugal’s return to democracy
20. Spain’s return to democracy
21. Yom Kippur War
22. OPEC
23. 1970s reforms to the EU

From Perry:

24.Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, "Action Program"

25. Warsaw Meeting  of Five Communist and Worker Parties

26. De Beauvoir

27. Cohn-Bendit

28. Ellul

29. Fischer

QUESTIONS  

1. The sixties, and especially the seventies, were hard years in Europe.  What went wrong?
2. But, in retrospect, some good things happened – what were the three best things that happened in Europe’s seventies?