HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Dougie Squires, De-Stalinization, Algerian War
20 Mar 2014
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We need to understand why the young. Why the young man represented a threat to the social order. Before we explore the events, trends and movements of 1968 we need to understand the political and social shifts. Decline and fall of the world population of western europe that resulted in an upward and mobile rural population. We have people moving away from the countryside into the cities. They become more educated then there parents and their elders. New occupations require secondary and tertiary education in ways that weren"t necessary in earlier years. Before wwii, if we combine the uk and france the number of university students was less then 1/10 1%. After wwii, we had as much as 20% of the population that was going to university. We have a massive increase in the accessibility to post-secondary education. Many historians say that in post-war europe this new group of young people created a new body of citizens.
