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Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration - Coggle Diagram
Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration
Political Schism
- Early 60s ties between the USSR and - China, and communism was divided in Moscow and Peking.
- Development of social studies in developed countries and in the Third World.
Energy Crisis
- In the 1970s, there was an energy crisis, when the hydrocarbon-producing countries raised their oil prices.
- OPEC became a major player in the world economy.
- With the crisis: some countries increased their power, technological changes affected humanity and countries that did not have oil sacrificed themselves to obtain it.
European Integration
In the 1950s, a process of economic integration began, which was called the European Common Market, made up of 27 countries.
Fall of Communism
- 1980: In the USSR the weight of Stalinism, the abandonment of socialist ideals and bureaucratization affecting the country.
- Communist Party lost power, with Russia becoming the leader.
- In Eastern Europe: communism became capitalism.
- Yugoslavia dissolved in the midst of a bloody civil war.
- The Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and East Germany was annexed to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Asia Growth
- Japan affected by the war let the United States occupy its territory.
- The Japanese were a great power thanks to the production of automobiles and advanced technology.
- Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea were called the Asian tigers because of their industrialization.
- China became communist, but after Mao's death, it opened up to capitalism, which made its economy grow.
Civil Rights and Breaks
- The resistance of the population to the unpopular Vietnam War and left despair, confronting and winning over the world's greatest power.
- There were violent attitudes, and Martin Luther King imposed pacifism.
- President Richard Nixon accepted the political espionage called Watergate, was true where it revealed the corruption and lack of control of the government.
- In the 1950s, there were protests against discrimination and demanded effective equality in voting, work and services.
- Young people refused to go to war, and this provoked a crisis of capitalism in the United States.