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- What is meant by “Reconstruction” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- Reconstruction rebuilt institutions, infrastructure, and livelihoods after war.
- What is meant by “Marshall Plan” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- The U.S. recovery program supported European reconstruction beginning in the late 1940s.
- What is meant by “Welfare state” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- Welfare-state institutions provide social protections through nationally varying arrangements.
- What is meant by “Postwar migration” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- Migration reshaped labor markets, communities, and citizenship debates.
- What is meant by “Decolonization connection” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- Decolonization changed European states' global relationships and domestic societies.
- What is meant by “Social movements” in this lesson?Reconstruction and social change
- Movements contested rights, participation, and social norms through varied organizing.
- What is meant by “Eastern-bloc dissent” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- Dissent challenged political restrictions through organizing, expression, and varied opposition.
- What is meant by “Solidarity” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- Solidarity emerged as a Polish trade-union movement central to challenges to communist rule.
- What is meant by “Soviet reform” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- Late-1980s Soviet reforms altered politics and economic policy with unintended effects.
- What is meant by “Revolutions of 1989” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- The 1989 changes transformed several eastern European regimes through differing processes.
- What is meant by “German reunification” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- Germany reunified in 1990 after the opening of the Wall and subsequent negotiations.
- What is meant by “Soviet dissolution” in this lesson?Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War
- The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 amid political and economic crises.
- What is meant by “European integration” in this lesson?European integration
- Integration creates shared institutions or coordinated policies among participating states.
- What is meant by “European Union” in this lesson?European integration
- The EU is a treaty-based union with institutions and competencies distinct from the geographical continent.
- What is meant by “Single market” in this lesson?European integration
- A single market aims to support movement of goods, services, capital, and people under common rules.
- What is meant by “Euro area” in this lesson?European integration
- The euro area consists of states using the euro under its institutional arrangements, not all European countries.
- What is meant by “Sovereignty debate” in this lesson?European integration
- Debates concern how authority is shared between national and common institutions.
- What is meant by “Integration variation” in this lesson?European integration
- Participation differs across agreements and has changed over time.