History 1401E Lecture 10: Social and Cultural Changes in Europe
1 Apr 2016
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Western europe"s government doesn"t dominate the societies the way nazis and. Public education, governments of family and property relation. Generals trends in west germany are pre-european. What changes: fewer working hours, work became slightly easier, and mechanized, more stable, germany had been the most economically successful and stable for many years, but post-war this began to change. Secularization of european societies: reduction of confessional tensions. 1-1:30pm) no full time jobs offered such little hours. The status of homosexuals: under the nazi regime, homosexuals were unlawful as they were not providing. !1: in 1969, west germany decriminalized homosexuality, although there were still civil discrimination issues. Soon after, it became illegal to discriminate, and from then on the government had done a full circle and began to protect homosexuals. Decline in the birthrate / demography: europeans lived longer, there were fewer orphans, widows, etc, effective contraceptives became available in the 1960s, which the catholic church was against.
