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Hollanditis

Hollanditis was a term coined in 1981 by the American historian Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur

Walter Zeev Laqueur is an United States historian and political commentator.He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine....
. It was used to describe the wave of pacifist

Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved; to calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war; to opposition to any organization of society...
neutralism

Neutral country

For other uses of Neutral and Neutrality, see NeutralA neutral country takes no side in a war between other parties. A neutralist policy aims at neutrality in case of an armed conflict that could involve the party in question....
that swept through the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
in the first half of the 1980s and which influenced similar grass roots

Grass Roots

Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003.The series is set around the fictional Arcadia Waters Council near Sydney, and was primarily a satirical look at the machinations of local government....
movements in other European countries.

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Hollanditis was a term coined in 1981 by the American historian Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur

Pacifism

Neutral country

Netherlands

Grass Roots

Post-war

A post-war period is the interval immediately following the beginning of a war and enduring as long as war does not resume. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date ....
era and it came as a response to the confrontational politics of the Reagan administration

Reagan Administration

The United States President of the United States of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Reagan Administration, was a Republican Party administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989....
in the US that were seen as a threat to the peaceful co-existence of the 1970s.

The movement gathered pace after a 1981 manifestation against the nuclear arms race in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
attracted an unexpected 400,000 demonstrators. A motley coalition of anti-military and peace groups of different persuasions came together and collected over 3.75 million signatures (a quarter of the population) against the deployment on Dutch soil of US cruise missile

Cruise missile

A cruise missile is a guided missile missile that carries an explosive payload and uses a lifting wing and a propulsion system, usually a jet engine, to allow sustained flight; it is essentially a flying bomb....
s that were destined to carry nuclear warheads, in particular neutron bomb

Neutron bomb

A neutron bomb, technically referred to as an enhanced radiation weapon , is a type of tactical nuclear weapon formerly built mainly by the United States specifically to release a large portion of its energy as energetic neutron radiation....
s, but by the time the petition was presented, the Dutch centre-right government had already given in to the diplomatic pressure from NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
. The Hollanditis fever peaked in 1983 with a mass demonstration in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
aimed against the deployment. The demonstration drew a record 550,000 participants and was entirely non-violent, unlike other anti-nuclear

Anti-nuclear

The anti-nuclear movement is a loosely-linked international new social movements opposed to the use of nuclear technology. The chief focus of the movement is opposition to nuclear power , but also includes other issues such as:...
protests of the era.

In the end the warheads never arrived , due to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by President of the United States Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on Ma...
between Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
and Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
.

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