10–15% of the AP exam. Key topics: Cold War origins: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, NATO and Warsaw Pact, Soviet consolidation of Eastern Europe: satellite states, Iron Curtain, Decolonization: independence movements in Asia and Africa, European retreat from empire, European integration: formation of the EEC, Maastricht Treaty, creation of the EU and the euro, The 1968 upheavals: student revolts in France and Czechoslovakia (Prague Spring), Détente and nuclear arms competition, Thatcherism and Reaganism: neoliberal economic policies, welfare state retrenchment, Fall of communism (1989): Solidarity in Poland, Berlin Wall, collapse of Soviet satellites, Soviet dissolution (1991) and post-Cold War Europe, Contemporary challenges: immigration, European populism, Eurozone crisis.
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