https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6 AP Euro Reading Guide en-us 2018-04-06 15:16:13 UTC 2026-03-21 22:01:10 UTC hello@padlet.com nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249264714 Overview: After World War 2, the amount of women in the workforce decreased and there was a "baby boom". Then these birth rates went down after birth control methods were improved like oral pills for birth control. This time period also gave way to many feminist movements.]]> 2018-04-06 15:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249264714 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249270876 After the war, the percentage of working women went down significantly. This was not necessarily true for the US and the Soviet Union however. The percentage of married women of women workers went up from 15% to 62% from 1900 to 1970 and by 1970, 92.5% of women in the Soviet Union held jobs.]]> 2018-04-06 15:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249270876 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249274637 After the first World War, some countries had already acknowledged the role women played in the war and granted them voting rights.  After the second, they became even closer to gaining that right and  Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Czechoslovakia granted women's suffrage in 1918, followed by the United States in 1920.]]> 2018-04-06 15:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249274637 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249276887 In the 1960's, a movement arose to fight for the liberation of women and the role they played in society. They were sick of not being considered equal to the male in their relationship. Simone De Behaviour became detrimental to the cause, leading to her publishing of "The Second Sex" in 1949]]> 2018-04-06 15:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/249276887 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/252511375 Women's rights started a huge movement and resulted in a strong pull for the women's rights. Women and men alike started pulling for more rights to women especially after the vital role they played in the war. Another large part had to do with the fact that women were promised rights after the first world war but didn't get any so women were again promised more rights and no signs were shown that meant they were going to get them so women fought for them instead of standing idly by again.]]> 2018-04-17 11:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/252511375 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253771321 By the 1970s, it was obvious that there were some serious problems in the environment including pollution in the air, ocean, and on the land. The Chernobyl incident in 1986 was extremely alarming and pollution from car fumes, factories, and power plants were causing illness and lung diseases all over the world which resulted in surges like the Green Movement.]]> 2018-04-20 11:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253771321 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253772641 The origins of Green Parties were by no means uniform.  Some came from anti-nuclear movements which resulted from everything from the Chernobyl incident to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Some even came from the women's rights movements.  However most started on a local level and then they worked their way up to the national level and became political parties.  They worked best in Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and most prominently in Germany however most parties could not agree on some simple things outside of the fact that they needed to improve the environment so they failed in the government while raising lots of money to use towards the environment.]]> 2018-04-20 11:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253772641 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253778471 Theoretical science and technology had long been separated before the second World War but we saw numerous advancements by scientists who were employed by the governments in the war to help turn the tides of the war.]]> 2018-04-20 11:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253778471 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253779339 Scientists were encouraged to create new weapons and tools that could be used in the world war which led to the enhanced radar system made by British physicists, the atom bomb, and even self-propelled jet missiles and torpedoes by the Germans.  The space race was also a huge part in this subject matter, including the Soviet Sputnik. This was a huge breakthrough in space science and led to the eventual American moon landing.]]> 2018-04-20 12:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253779339 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253782361 The computer was invented during World War II by Alan Turing to help the Allies decode messages sent by the Axis powers. Though it was primal and not extremely advanced like the current ones it was one of the first to arise. In addition, the creation of the e-mail in the 1990s transformed the way we communicate. It was much easier to send messages over long distances because of the internet.]]> 2018-04-20 12:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253782361 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253784358 Pop culture played a crucial role in society at this point, where the Western World became the front runner in culture. ]]> 2018-04-20 12:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253784358 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253785365 America rose as the country that had the biggest impact on popular culture in the world. Through movies, books, television, and advertising especially, Americans have spread their idea of consumerism and the American Dream across the world. European nations made movies that were quite different from those featured in Hollywood and it made for avant-garde methods that resulted in "national movies" or movies that could be supported in their specific country but not so much across the world.

]]> 2018-04-20 12:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253785365 nathan_ciufo https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253860408 The emergence of mass sports was very important including the Soccer World Cup and the Americanized yet again concessions including beer, hot dogs, and soda.]]> 2018-04-20 14:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_ciufo/up394t3q7bp6/wish/253860408