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1980s Political Polarization
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 12, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
economy, German, Thatcher, Andropov, socialist, domestic, banks, polarized, Afghanistan, malaise, Europe, Serfdom, Tendenzwende, intentions, Genscher, demonstrations, terrorist, defensive, ballot, 1983, reboot, liberal, Italy, Britain, symbol, Poland, Reagan, Schmidt, Friedman, Cuban, order, European, communist, Mitterand, bully
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1970s: looking for new ideas to get out of the economic
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economic liberalism
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instead of larger government control of the , retreat from a government role in the economy
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Milton , 1975 interview
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he calls himself a as in freedom instead of a conservative as in conserving the current economic practices
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says its a mistake to judge policies and programs by their rather than their results
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says programs that are labeled for the poor and needy almost always have the opposite effects of those for which they were intended
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he borrows from earlier economists
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Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist from 1940s, book "Road to "
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issue of human rights
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taken up on left and right wings of American and politics
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John Paul II (pope from 1978-2005)
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represented the aspirations of liberty for people in
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provided a symbol of the aspirations of liberty around the world
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being held back by Soviet Union
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yearning for public
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reaction to the violence and the movements of the 1970s
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America chased out of Vietnam, now on the
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in the shadow of the USSR, looking now like the world's
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political turns in the 1970s
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and Spain
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communists come close to gaining power but are turned back at the box
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England
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comes to power
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USA
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comes to power
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France
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comes to power
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looks as if France is going to become more deeply
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1981 forms a ruling coalition and partnership with the party
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1982 he then decides to align to partners, even with the British
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firmly anti-communist in political issues
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recoils from communism in economic issues
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does not nationalize the big
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he decides France just can't afford the long-term costs of socialism
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but needs to join a European consensus that will capitalism
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Mitterand's conversion in 1982 becomes a big part of an emerging trend
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West Germany
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no country was more important in determining the future of Europe than West Germany
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Helmut 's SPD
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very pro-NATO and anti-Soviet
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strong on defense issues
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had to govern along with Germany's liberal party, the Free Democrat party
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led by Hans-Dietrich
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crisis over missles
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the Soviet Union deployed in the 1970s a new set of missiles which could target sites all through
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Western leaders saw this as a way to disable their response strategy to agression where the West could be the first to use nuclear weapons
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therefore Europeans felt they needed missiles from the US which could strike the Soviet Union
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West European leaders like Helmut Schmidt are asking the United States to deploy missiles in their countries
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1979: NATO begins deployment of missles to be ended by
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became an enormous of the Cold War confrontation
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SPD party led by Schmidt moves leftward
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does not want to go along with the missile deployment
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things it will make Europe a nuclear battlefield
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they want agreements against arms
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1980s politics becoming
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pro or against NATO
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end of social-liberal coalition
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of hundreds of thousands of people in West Germany
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1982 Kohl and the
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seizing on the ideological differences between East and West
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explicitly aligning with NATO
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the East/West choice is also felt in , France, Italy, the United States
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1981-1983 intense years of international crisis
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Poland had to declar Martial Law
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Soviet War in grinds on
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debt crisis in the Third World
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1982 Argentina seizes Falklands
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1983 Soviets walk out of talks over missile build up
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books
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The Third World War
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television drama
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The Day After
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films
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Red Dawn - Soviet invasion of the United Stets accompanied by allies
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War Games - war machines getting out of control
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Reagan
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portray strength with an interest in peace
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vs.
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Thatcher, Kohl and Reagan get support
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win reelections
Vocabulary:
| avuncular, adj. regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance ⇒ "That gentle, avuncular fellow Milton Friedman." |
People:
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) American economist, statistician, and writer, the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century
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Yuri Andropov (1914-1984) Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982-1984
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Helmut Schmidt (1918-) West Germany chancellor from 1974-1982, member of the SPD party,
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Ideas and Concepts:
On the complete confusion of the terms liberal and conservative, via tonight's history class and a 1975 interview with Milton Friedman: "I never characterize myself as a conservative economist. As I understand the English language, conservative means conserving, keeping things as they are. I don't want to keep things as they are. The true conservatives today are the people who are in favor of ever bigger government, the people who call themselves liberals today, the New Dealers, they are the true conservatives, because they want to keep going on the same path we're going on. I would like to dismantle that. I call myself a liberal in the true sense of liberal in the sense that it means of and pertaining to freedom."
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