Ch. 12.3 Western Europe and North America

Question 1

welfare state

Answer 1

state in which gov’t takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and minimal standard of living

Question 2

bloc

Answer 2

group of nations with common purpose (ex. EEC)

Question 3

real wages

Answer 3

actual purchasing power of income (grew in American history from 1945-1973)

Question 4

civil rights movement

Answer 4

equal rights for African Americans; Johnson’s domestic passion; began in 1954

Question 5

consumer society

Answer 5

society preoccupied with buying goods, not producing them (1950s Western countries)

Question 6

women’s liberation movement

Answer 6

feminism; late 1960s renewed interest in women asserting for rights

Question 7

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 7

war hero; 1946: established new French gov’t (Fourth Republic)–>withdrew—>returned; elected president of Fifth Republic; invest in nuclear arms; economy grew FAST; France became important industrial producer/exporter; want France “returned to glory”; resigned 1969 after student protests

Question 8

European Economic Community

Answer 8

Common Market; created in the Rome Treaty (France, W. Germany, Benelux countries); free-trade area made of six nations; no tariffs on each other’s goods; economic benefit

Question 9

John F. Kennedy

Answer 9

youngest elected president; killed by assassin Nov 22, 1963; Johnson took power

Question 10

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 10

leader of growing movement for racial equality; Aug 1963: led march on Washington D.C.; advocate passive disobedience

Question 11

Simone de Beauvoir

Answer 11

French author; {The Second Sex} (1949); want to rid male-dominant societies

Question 12

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 12

1965; easier for African Americans to vote in Southern states

Question 13

Watts Riots

Answer 13

Aug 11-17, 1965: LA riot that outburst in Watts community; sparked because of black man arrested by white police man out of suspicion; many people were angered by horrible city conditions

Question 14

Lester Pearson

Answer 14

Liberal Party leader in Canada; create Canada’s welfare state; enact social security system (Canada Pension Plan) and national health insurance

Question 15

NATO

Answer 15

created 1949 as result of division of Cold War; France left NATO for more freedom (de Gaulle)

Question 16

student revolts

Answer 16

May 1968: series of student revolts—>de Gaulle resign; American protests against Vietnam War; disappeared around 1970s

Question 17

France’s 5th Republic

Answer 17

1958: new constitution for 5th Republic by de Gaulle; president would have more power; people were enthusiastic

Question 18

West Germany/East Germany

Answer 18

(W) miraculous recover under Adenauer of Christian Democratic Union; (E) still controlled by Soviets

Question 19

Labour Party

Answer 19

(GB) after the war defeated Conservative Party headed by Churchill; promised reforms, esp. in social welfare; Clement Attlee was new prime minister; create welfare state

Question 20

Red Scare

Answer 20

fear of Communist subversion (takeover)

Question 21

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 21

senator of Wisconsin; claimed that some high gov’t officials and well-known individuals were Communist; thrown out of Senate

Question 22

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Answer 22

ruled that racial segregation in public schools was illegal

Question 23

segregation

Answer 23

separation (by race or skin color, certain prejudice)

Question 24

Civil Rights Act 1964

Answer 24

created by Johnson; basis to end segregation and discrimination