HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: May 1968 Events In France, Second Vatican Council, Mahatma Gandhi
9 Dec 2017
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Hist 215: lecture 23: 1968: (cid:498)economic miracle(cid:499) -impact of wwii: wartime collapse of white states; postwar weakness of colonial powers; role. Prolonged boom and unparalleled prosperity (esp. in developed west) in quarter century after 1950; European average unemployment of 1. 5%, 1960s; expansion of welfare states; european economies grew average 4. 5% p. a. , 1950-73. Many countries had conservative governments, these governments did not intend on going back to prewar government, instead following policies of commitment to part private part public ownership. (reforming: health care, education, public transport, subsidization) Political consensus behind mixed economy, full employment and welfare state; ( nordic model ); Corporatist consensus between employers and labour; all helped development of a mass consumer market (e. g. car ownership in w. europe from 5m to 44m, 1948-65). -inefficient, rapid heavy-industry industrialization in e. europe, following soviet model; living standards slow to improve: decolonization of us. Palestine was governed by britain, gb withdrawal leaving jews and arabs to fight it out, may.
