HIST 215 Chapter Notes -Mikhail Gorbachev, Long Hair, Nuclear Weapon

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Transitions to democracy and the collapse of communism: in 1968, domestic political conflict erupted in europe, france and the. France: ended with government repression and a conservative show of force. Elsewhere: conservative or centrist parties dominated governments of britain, the. German federal republic, and italy (1970s+1980s) while socialists held power in france between 1981 and 1995. Because of gorbachev"s reforms in the soviet union, one communist government after another fell: these revolutions ranged from the velvet revolution in. Czechoslovakia to the violent overthrow of nicolae ceausescu in. Overall, the fall of communism was achieved through a remarkably peaceful process of change. In the 1960s u. s: long hair, sexual freedom, rock music, and marijuana seemed part of the idealistic youth rebellion against the state and capitalism. Western european states began to turn away from u. s. foreign policy domination: charles de gaulle feared domination of europe by britain and the.

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