HIST 215 Lecture 24: HIST+215+handout+24

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 215
• Professor: Elizabeth Elbourne

Document Summary

-positives and negatives of neoliberal policies: stabilization of economies; unemployment. Hist 215: lecture 24: 1989: neoliberalism system, 1971; opec (organization of petroleum exporting countries) oil crisis, 1973 (retaliation for us support of israel in yom kippur war). -(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:882)s, end of (cid:498)economic miracle(cid:499)/(cid:499)social democratic era(cid:499); collapse of bretton woods (cid:498)stagflation(cid:499); example of sweden; rise of neoliberals friedrich von (ayek and milton friedman. -policies of margaret thatcher(cid:495)s conservative govt. in gb from 1979; (contrast fran ois. Mitterrand(cid:495)s socialists from (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:883)(cid:524). fell after (cid:494)(cid:890)(cid:882)s (cid:523)but still high(cid:524); increase in income inequalities/numbers (cid:498)left behind(cid:499) or in (a) the mediterranean: in greece, (cid:498)regime of colonels(cid:499) from (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:889) under georgios papadopoulos. Salazar/marcelo caetano dictatorship fell in army-led (cid:498)carnation revolution(cid:499), (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)4; spain, juan. Cold war with ronald reagan(cid:495)s america. by chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1986, and perestroika (cid:523)restructuring(cid:524); policy of (cid:498)imperial retreat(cid:499) opened and soon demolished. In czechoslovakia, (cid:498)velvet revolution(cid:499) from aug. installed vaclav from satellite countries. Solidarity and concede elections; aug. tadeusz mazowiecki 1st non-communist pm.