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The Industrialized The Industrialized DemocraciesDemocracies

America ProspersDollar was world’s strongest currency

Headquarters of U.N was in NYC

Foreign trade because of destruction

Many Americans prospered

Movement to suburbs and the sunbelt

Action movies/ ElvisIncrease in government programs

Oil shockEarly 1970’s political crisis in Middle East

Prices increasedRecession in 1974

Democracy Expands Opportunities

Minorities and women demanded equality

Legal segregationDiscriminationTruman-desegregated military

1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.1963 “I have a dream”Civil rights movementLaws were changed

Women’s rights movement

Under JFK and LBJ, Medicare, housing for poor

1980’s Reagan called for cutbacks on spending

Military spending increased

Increased national budget deficit

More cuts

Western Europe Rebuilds40yrs. Of difference in Germany

Shot if they tried to cross1990 German unificationW. Germany booming industry

Britain abandoned its colonial empire

Recovered in 50’s/60’sSocial benefits to citizensWelfare statePensions and unemployment

Higher taxesMargaret Thatcher led the conservatives in Britain

European Coal and Steel Community

European Economic Community

Japan Is TransformedMost devastating damageGen. Douglas MacArthur

assumed all of the power from the emperor

Parliamentary democracyEducation for allRights to women

Land reform program1952 U.S. leftTrading partnersLiberal Democratic PartyDemocracy in JapanGDP soaredExports