AP European History / Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
9.12 Technology
Notes
Postwar technology: computers, the internet, nuclear energy, space exploration, medical advances (vaccines, IVF). Concerns: nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, 1986), privacy and environmental damage.
Practice
The Chernobyl disaster (1986) happened in:
Nuclear accident.
The internet has transformed Europe by:
Digital age.
A concern about new technology is:
Data protection (GDPR).
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