Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960–1990
Subject:
European History [1]
Tags:
Perestroika [2]
Communist states [4]
Eastern Bloc [5]
soviet union [7]
Boris Yeltsin [8]
Cold War [9]
revolutions [10]
Glasnost [11]
Russia [12]
USSR [13]
Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 7 June 2015 Chapter 18 Outline Red Flags/Velvet Revolutions: End of Cold War, 1960 ? 1990 TV, radio, film promoted Americanmiddle-class life 60s, econ. Boom ended, movements of social protest, especially among youth, shattered consensus; environmentalists/feminists criticized assumptions of older generation Problems were compounded in 1975 by econ. Crisis Econ. Decay with stagnation produced revolt;1989, commie rule collapsed in East Euro Migrants weren?t celebrated; became targets of suspicion/violence Reunification of Germany in 1991, attacks against migrants in East Germany by right-wing extremists killed 17 foreigners