economic and social changes after wwi
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Economic and social changes after WWI, social walfare, the counter generation, the life of hippiesTRANSCRIPT
Economic and political changes after WWII.
By: Dóra Nagy 13.c
The World after WWII.
• Soviet Union + socialist countriesexcluded themselves from world economy
• Western Europestate participation (transportation, heavy industry, mining industry)
• USAMarshall-plan: capital-loan, state-loan
• Japaninstead of military, could focus on economic development
Economic Recovery
RESULT• Western-Europe
stabilised living standardsreduced the tension of inner affairsinitiated the development of economyeuropean co-operation
• Colonies ceised to existpast-colonies started to develop (S-E-Asia)
SOCIET
Y
State welfare• Based on an the american New Deal• State interfere + expanding market national
consumersRapidly growing living standards• Higher salaries• Reduced working hours• State Social Benefits
(unemployment, insurances)
• Consumer Society (TV, phone, radio, holidays)
Counter culture of
the
1960s
HIPPIES of the 1960s
• Baby boom after the war• Rejecting old traditions,
finding new ideologies• Manifest new hair style,
fashion, music• Protested for race
relations, women's rights, consumer society, war of Vietnam• Experimented with
pscychoactive drugs
Counterculture of the 1960s
• Protested against the system they lived in• Grew up, employed• Rebellions became memories
Information revolution
New industrial fields• Electronics, information
technology• Heavy industry became less
important coal no more needed• beginning of XX. c. USA• Second half of XX. c. Japan,
S-E-Asia (Taiwan, S-Korea)• End of XX. c. China, still is
RESULT
Result• Social layering ends• Peasants, working class cease to
exist • Growing number of intellectuals• Old ideologies (liberalism,
marxism) lose relevance• Consumer society is
based on the constant development of economy
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