Chapter 30 Ap Euro Outline
Chapter 30: The West at the Dawn of the 21st Century~.
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The 20th century movement of people:
The Soviet communists’ forced removal of the Russian peasants and the Nazi’s deportations and execution of European Jews were only the most dramatic examples of this development.
Many moved from the countryside to the cities.
Other vast forced movements due to the government caused millions of Germans Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Finns, Chechens, Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Balts, and Bosnian Muslims to be displaced.
This forced displacement transformed parts of Europe.
Displacement through War:
WWII created a huge refugee problem.
An estimated 46 million people were displaced in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union alone between 1938 and 1948.
The Nazis had move hundred of thousands of foreign workers into Germany, million more were POWs, some returned to their homeland, other were forced, hundreds found refuge in W. Europe.
Changes in borders after the war also uprooted many people.
Eternal and Internal Migration:
1945-1960: Half a million Europeans left Europe each year.
Decolonization in the postwar period led to many European colonials to return to Europe from overseas.
Decolonization also led non-European inhabitants of former colonies to migrate to Europe. -----------------------
This influx proved to be a long term source of social tension and conflict.
In Britain, radical tensions were high during the 1980s.
France faced a similar problem, which contributed to the emergence of the National Front, that sought to exploit the resentment many worker felt toward North African workers.
The growing Muslim presence in Europe had produced some of the most serious ethnic and political tensions.
The New Muslim Population:
The immigration of Muslims into Europe, and particularly Western Europe, arose from 2 chief sources:
European economic growth
Decolonization
After
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The 20th century movement of people:
The Soviet communists’ forced removal of the Russian peasants and the Nazi’s deportations and execution of European Jews were only the most dramatic examples of this development.
Many moved from the countryside to the cities.
Other vast forced movements due to the government caused millions of Germans Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Finns, Chechens, Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Balts, and Bosnian Muslims to be displaced.
This forced displacement transformed parts of Europe.
Displacement through War:
WWII created a huge refugee problem.
An estimated 46 million people were displaced in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union alone between 1938 and 1948.
The Nazis had move hundred of thousands of foreign workers into Germany, million more were POWs, some returned to their homeland, other were forced, hundreds found refuge in W. Europe.
Changes in borders after the war also uprooted many people.
Eternal and Internal Migration:
1945-1960: Half a million Europeans left Europe each year.
Decolonization in the postwar period led to many European colonials to return to Europe from overseas.
Decolonization also led non-European inhabitants of former colonies to migrate to Europe. -----------------------
This influx proved to be a long term source of social tension and conflict.
In Britain, radical tensions were high during the 1980s.
France faced a similar problem, which contributed to the emergence of the National Front, that sought to exploit the resentment many worker felt toward North African workers.
The growing Muslim presence in Europe had produced some of the most serious ethnic and political tensions.
The New Muslim Population:
The immigration of Muslims into Europe, and particularly Western Europe, arose from 2 chief sources:
European economic growth
Decolonization
After