Economic and political changes after WWII.

By: Dóra Nagy 13.c

The World after WWII.

• Soviet Union + socialist countriesexcluded themselves from world economy

• Western Europestate participation (transportation, heavy industry, mining industry)

• USAMarshall-plan: capital-loan, state-loan

• Japaninstead of military, could focus on economic development

Economic Recovery

RESULT• Western-Europe

stabilised living standardsreduced the tension of inner affairsinitiated the development of economyeuropean co-operation

• Colonies ceised to existpast-colonies started to develop (S-E-Asia)

SOCIET

Y

State welfare• Based on an the american New Deal• State interfere + expanding market national

consumersRapidly growing living standards• Higher salaries• Reduced working hours• State Social Benefits

(unemployment, insurances)

• Consumer Society (TV, phone, radio, holidays)

Counter culture of

the

1960s

HIPPIES of the 1960s

• Baby boom after the war• Rejecting old traditions,

finding new ideologies• Manifest new hair style,

fashion, music• Protested for  race

relations, women's rights, consumer society, war of Vietnam• Experimented with

pscychoactive drugs

Counterculture of the 1960s

• Protested against the system they lived in• Grew up, employed• Rebellions became memories

Information revolution

New industrial fields• Electronics, information

technology• Heavy industry became less

important coal no more needed• beginning of XX. c. USA• Second half of XX. c. Japan,

S-E-Asia (Taiwan, S-Korea)• End of XX. c. China, still is

RESULT

Result• Social layering ends• Peasants, working class cease to

exist • Growing number of intellectuals• Old ideologies (liberalism,

marxism) lose relevance• Consumer society is

based on the constant development of economy

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