29-1: Politics in Western Europe / 29-2 Social Change How did the relaxation of east-west tensions (détente) affect politics in Western Europe? How did political parties in the west change in the 1970s and 1980s? What forms of terrorism arose in western Europe in these decades? How did Environmental Movements affect politics? What new forms of conservatism arose? Name some of the goals of the feminist movement. Where did the influx of Muslims into Europe come from (and why?)? 29-3 Communist East / 29-4 Cultural Leaps What were some of the most important changes in the USSR in this period? Why do many older Russians remember the 1970s as a positive decade? What specific issues made Polish workers (and intellectuals) band together and form Solidarno??? What new policies did Mikhail Gorbachev introduce in the USSR? What unintended consequences did his reform bring? What is meant by the “sexual revolution”? Who opposed it? How did Islam change in this period? How did Islam challenge the Western powers?
