While the world seemed in relative balance since the end of the Second World War, history was shaken up in 1979. Crucial changes, which no one had seen coming, will sweep across the planet, and their consequences are still being felt Today. With Brice Couturier, journalist and essayist, author of 1979, the great change of the worldLa Loupe looks back on four of these major events.
In 1979, the Islamic Republic was established after the fall of the Shah of Iran. In this first episode, we dissect this event which reshaped the balance of power in the region.
When the European question redefines French politics. In this second episode, La Loupe focuses on the splits within the left and the right which were born in 1979 and whose traces are still visible today.
Two new leaders, two economic revolutions. In this third episode, we head to the United Kingdom and China where the changes initiated in 1979 are shaking up the global system.
Between the Euromissile crisis and the Soviet offensive in Afghanistan, the Cold War took a turning point in 1979. In this last episode, we are interested in the beginnings of the fall of the USSR.
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