Chapter 28 Review: Important Events
| 1963 | Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique |
| 1966 | Willy Brandt becomes West German foreign minister and develops Ostpolitik |
| 1967 | First successful human heart transplant |
| 1968 | Revolution in Czechoslovakia; student uprisings throughout Europe and the United States |
| 1969 | U.S. astronauts walk on the moon’s surface |
| 1972 | SALT I between the United States and Soviet Union |
| 1973 | End of Vietnam War; OPEC raises price of oil and imposes oil embargo on the West |
| 1973–1976 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago |
| 1978 | The first test-tube baby is born in England |
| 1978–1979 | Islamic revolution in Iran; hostages are taken at U.S. embassy in Teheran |
| 1980 | Solidarity organizes resistance to Polish communism; British prime minister Margaret Thatcher begins dismantling the welfare state |
| 1981 | Ronald Reagan becomes U.S. president |
| 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet premier |
| 1986 | Explosion at Chernobyl nuclear plant; Spain joins the Common Market |
| 1989 | Chinese students revolt in Tiananmen Square; Communist governments are ousted in eastern Europe; Berlin Wall is demolished |
Consider three events: Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique (1963), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago (1973–1976), and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher begins dismantling the welfare state (1980). How can all of these be considered responses to postindustrial society?