# Hollanditis

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{{Short description|1981 social movement}}
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[[File:Affiche van Hollanditis, Bestanddeelnr 931-7437.jpg|thumb|right|Poster of Hollanditis in 1981. Marcel Antonisse / [Anefo](/source/Anefo)]]
thumb|right|The peace demonstration of 29 October 1983 in The Hague was the biggest ever organised in the Netherlands.
'''Hollanditis''' was a term coined in 1981 by the American historian [Walter Laqueur](/source/Walter_Laqueur). It was used to describe the wave of [pacifist](/source/pacifism) [neutralism](/source/Neutral_country) that swept through the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands) in the first half of the 1980s and which influenced similar [grass roots](/source/grass_roots) movements in other European countries. It was the biggest popular movement in the Netherlands in the [post-war](/source/post-war) era and it came as a response to the confrontational politics of the [Reagan administration](/source/Reagan_administration) in the US that were seen as a threat to the [peaceful co-existence](/source/peaceful_co-existence) of the 1970s.

The movement gathered pace after a 1981 manifestation against the [nuclear arms race](/source/nuclear_arms_race) in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam) attracted an unexpected 400,000 demonstrators. A coalition of [anti-military](/source/anti-militarism) 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](/source/cruise_missile)s that were destined to carry [nuclear warhead](/source/nuclear_warhead)s, in particular [neutron bomb](/source/neutron_bomb)s, but by the time the petition was presented, the Dutch centre-right government had already given in to the diplomatic pressure from [NATO](/source/NATO). The movement peaked in 1983 with a mass demonstration in [The Hague](/source/The_Hague) aimed against the deployment. The demonstration drew a record 550,000 participants and was entirely [nonviolent](/source/nonviolent){{citation needed|date=July 2018}},<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Klanderman |first=Bert |date=1987 |title=Potentials, Networks, Motivations, and Barriers: Steps Towards Participation in Social Movements |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=521 |jstor=}}</ref> unlike other [anti-nuclear protests](/source/anti-nuclear_protests) of the era.

== See also ==
* [Woensdrecht](/source/Woensdrecht)
* [Netherlands and weapons of mass destruction](/source/Netherlands_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction)

==References==
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Category:1980s in the Netherlands
Category:Foreign relations of the Netherlands
Category:Protest marches
Category:Anti-war movement
Category:Cold War terminology

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