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The west rebuilds on a bargain: markets plus welfare
Marshall aid primes recovery, and western states pair market economies with welfare guarantees, health systems, pensions, mass education, a settlement designed against the thirties' radicalisation. Prosperity's decades, les trente glorieuses in the French phrase, rebuild cities and politics together. The tested idea is the bargain itself: capitalism made survivable by cushioning, which is why the era's politics stays centripetal until the seventies.
Integration proceeds by treaty, sector by sector
Coal and steel pool first, six countries binding war industries together in 1951; the common market follows, then enlargement and deepening to the European Union with a shared currency for most. The design logic is the graded content: bind economies so war becomes irrational, discipline nationalism with institutions. Each treaty step trades sovereignty for scale, and the strains, budgets, borders, currencies, are argued at every step.
The east: planned, policed, and periodically in revolt
Soviet installed regimes collectivise and industrialise behind the Iron Curtain, and the empire's crises are its uprisings: Budapest 1956 crushed by tanks, Prague's socialism with a human face crushed in 1968, Poland's Solidarity surviving martial law into negotiation. Helsinki's rights clauses arm dissidents with their governments' own signatures, the paper lever the exam likes.
1989: the peaceful sweep and its exceptions
Gorbachev's reforms withdraw the Soviet guarantee, and the 1989 revolutions cascade: borders open, the wall falls, roundtables replace regimes in months, almost everywhere without blood, Romania the exception. Germany reunites inside NATO and the union's frame, and the Soviet dissolution in 1991 ends the division that named the era. Sequence and mechanism, withdrawal of force, cascade of exit, are the essay's spine.
After the wall: enlargement, wars, and strains
The union enlarges eastward, binding the former bloc into markets and law; Yugoslavia takes the opposite road, dissolving into wars and sieges that return genocide to the continent. The closing strains are contemporary: currency crises testing the shared euro, migration debates testing open borders, and departures testing the union's permanence. The unit ends with integration argued rather than assumed, which is the point essays should land.
What to photograph for Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Your two half charts and 1989 timelines. Related: Unit 8, photo to quiz and pricing.
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| Track | The mechanism | The landmark |
|---|---|---|
| Western bargain | Markets plus welfare | Recovery decades |
| Integration | Treaty by treaty | Coal and steel to union |
| Eastern control | Plan and police | The Curtain's regimes |
| Revolt | Uprisings, then unions | 1956, 1968, Solidarity |
| 1989 | Guarantee withdrawn | The wall opens |
| Aftermath | Enlarge and strain | Reunification, Yugoslavia |
What does AP European History Unit 9 cover?
Divided and reunited Europe: western welfare and integration, the eastern bloc and its uprisings, 1989, reunification, Soviet dissolution and the union's strains.
What was the west's postwar bargain?
Markets cushioned by welfare states: a settlement built against the thirties' radicalisation, funding the recovery decades.
Why did integration start with coal and steel?
To bind war industries first: pooling the materials of war made another Franco German war economically irrational, and the method scaled.
How did 1989 stay mostly peaceful?
The Soviet guarantee was withdrawn: without tanks behind them, regimes negotiated exits as crowds and roundtables cascaded, Romania the exception.
What tested the union after the wall?
Enlargement's costs, currency crises, migration debates and a departure: integration became argued politics rather than assumed direction.
Can I build questions from my own Unit 9 notes?
Yes. The questions follow the upload: photograph these pages or attach the PDF, and nothing outside them enters the set.
Last updated: 2026-08-15