HIST 1150 Lecture : Week 11 Notes
Document Summary
The sixties - political revolt and socio-cultural transformation in the age of affluence. Youth culture and the generation gap in the 60s. y the emergence of political protests in the backdrop of wealth. Keeps wages low and high investment (such as france with the nigerian settlers after the nigerian war) the ways wealthy western economies used forging settlers to do jobs that the citizens didn t want to do anymore. Usa agriculture to industry black americans to large cities , such as. War tended to compromise economic growth: new developments in energy and the abundance in cheap oil this fueled the period. Replacing outhouses to inside washrooms, ability to supply cheap oil fueled society. Divisions between non-violence and black power in the civil rights movement. American public opinion and the vietnam war: the student protest movement. The origins of student unrest in western europe during the 60s. The protests of 1968: france on the brink of revolution, may 1968.
