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1980s Political Polarization
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 12, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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Friedman, Genscher, Schmidt, ballot, bully, polarized, 1983, reboot, liberal, communist, defensive, terrorist, intentions, malaise, economy, Britain, Italy, Cuban, socialist, Mitterand, Afghanistan, German, Andropov, domestic, order, symbol, Thatcher, demonstrations, Serfdom, Poland, banks, European, Europe, Reagan, Tendenzwende
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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:

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
American economist, statistician, and writer, the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century
  • taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades
  • known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy
Yuri Andropov (1914-1984)
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982-1984
  • 1954: played a key role in crushing the Hungarian Revolution
  • 1967: played key role in crushing of Prague Spring
  • 1979: played dominant role in the decision to invade Afghanistan
Helmut Schmidt (1918-)
West Germany chancellor from 1974-1982, member of the SPD party,
  • 1969-1972: Minister of Defense
  • 1972-1974: Minister of Finance
  • supported policies which gave led to Germany having one of the most stable currencies and economic positions in the world

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."
1914: Schizophrenic Germany
1914: The Balkan Whirlpool
1914: From Balkan Crisis to War
1914-1916: All War Plans Fail Horribly
The 1916 Missed Opportunity for Peace
WWI Pushes Warring Countries Toward Total States
Why the Allies Won World War One
Post-WWI: Filling the Void of Collapsed Empires
Post-WWI Communism vs. Anti-Communism
Post World War I: The Age of Uncertainty
1910s/1920s: Modern Women
The World of 1930
The 1930s World Crisis
1930s: The Decade of Contingency
America's Entry into World War II
WWII: Strategies for Total War
1945: Hour Zero
Post WWII: Imagining New Countries
Conflicts in Postwar Nation Building
The Two Europes That Emerged After WWII
1947 China: Undesirable Communists vs. Flawed Nationalists
Post WWII: The Age of America
Reasons for the Korean War
How WWIII was Avoided in the Korean War
1950-1952: The Cold War Comes to Main Street
1950-1954: The H-Bomb and the Nuclear Revolution
1950s: Loosening Empires and Building Confederations
The Emergence of the Third World
1958-1962: The World at the Brink
Third World Proxy Wars of the 1950s and 1960s
Managerial States and the Transnational Disruption of 1968
1970s Obstacles to Reducing Cold War Tensions
1970s Democratic Socialism Becomes a Non-Choice
1980s Political Polarization
1980s: Global Capitalism Transformed