Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0339 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Social Democracy, the EEC, and 1968
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The idea
Democracy triumphed in the west with women voting almost everywhere. Social democracy guaranteed a minimum standard of living. The European Economic Community of nineteen fifty-seven multiplied trade, and the boom ran to the oil embargo of nineteen seventy-three.
In practice
The youth movement of nineteen sixty-eight; Beauvoir's Second Sex of nineteen forty-nine.
Where people slip
The Community became the European Union; Eastern Europe's system imploded under Gorbachev.
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