Topic 10

TOPIC 10 Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration

2. CIVIL RIGHTS AND BREAKS

The population's resistance to the unpopular Vietnam War and defeat left a feeling of failure and despair in the public.

The Vietnamese faced the greatest power in the world and were winning it.

There was a deep crisis of capitalism in the United States

6. ASIAN GROWTH

Japan was devastated by the war and then was occupied by the United States

China was unified by communism and its leaders, with Mao at the helm, were determined to structure a radical socialist state.

1. POLITICAL SCHISM

- China for various interpretations of Marxism and the revolutionary process, and also for spaces of international influence.

The propaganda of Soviets and Maoists intensified. This contributed to the development of social studies in developed countries and in the Third World.

5. FALL OF COMMUNISM

In the late 1980s, in the USSR, the Soviet system was running out because of the weight of Stalinism, the abandonment of socialist ideals and bureaucratization.

The Berlin dividing wall was overthrown in 1989 and East Germany was annexed to the German Federal Republic.

4. EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

What was called the European Common Market was made up of six countries.

The European Union has been a model for similar processes that have taken place throughout the world.

3. ENERGY CRISIS

The crisis increased the power of several countries, especially Arabs; they modified in some aspects the world economic panorama, and forced technological changes for fuel savings.