History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – October 31, 2005  

REBUILDING EUROPE/WEST: 1945 – 1949  

 TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. “Two opposed movements” (364)
  2. Resistance
  3. Two “failures” of Resistance (366)
  4. Nuremberg trial
  5. Mortenthau Plan
  6. Yalta Conference
  7. Potsdam Conference
  8. Oder-Neisse boundary
  9. German “expellees”
  10. Walter Ulbricht
  11. Socialist Unity Party
  12. The “Bizone”
  13. Social Democrats
  14. Kurt Schumacher
  15. Christian Democrats
  16. Konrad Adenauer
  17. “Trio of Parties” (377)
  18. Popular Republican Movement (MRP)
  19. Charles De Gaulle
  20. Jean Monnet
  21. Alcide De Gasperi
  22. Clement Attlee
  23. Labour’s social agenda in post-war Britain
  24. France’s Fourth Republic.

From Perry  

  1. Spender, “European Witness”
  2. Frank, “The Tragedy of the DP’s”
  3. Foa, “Europe in Ruins”
  4. UN Charter
  5. Marshall, “Laying the Foundations for Recovery”

 

QUESTION:  

What is Wilkinson’s thesis in this chapter?  Summarize his argument – has he proven his thesis?

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