A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

112 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe strategically crucial parts of Turkey. The Western Allies refused, because such a move wo ...

[n the Wake of Devastation 1113 Map 27.1 Post-War Territorial Settlements Territorial changes as of 1947, including American, Br ...

1114 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe in San Francisco in 1945 drew up the UN Charter. The UN headquarters was placed in New Y ...

In the Wake of Devastation 1115 pledged to come to the defense of their allies in case any one of them was attacked. Thus, in Ma ...

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In the Wake of Devastation 1117 Refugees waiting for food in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. Eastern European ethnic groups ...

1118 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe A French collaborator whose head has been shaved is paraded, with her baby, througl a vi ...

Economic Recovery and Prosperity 1119 tion about Communists in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Indeed, grow­ ing anti-communism ...

1120 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe Table 27.1. Indices of Industrial Production, 1946-1950 (1938= 100) 1946 1947 1948 1949 ...

Economic Recovery and Prosperity 1121 the strategic importance of the Middle East. Natural gas, much of which was imported from ...

1122 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe Table 27.2. Index of Industrial Production 1938 1948 1952 1959 1963 1967 United States 3 ...

Economic Recovery and Prosperity 1123 energy. This monopoly did not seem to slow the development of the Belgian economy, which e ...

1124 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe The Post-War Baby Boom Following the war, a veritable “baby boom” occurred in Europe, as ...

Economic Recovery and Prosperity 1125 The Green Revolution In the two decades that followed World War II, Western European agric ...

1126 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe Welfare States The emergence of welfare states within the context of market capitalism w ...

Politics in the West in the Post-War Era 1127 the increase in government services added to the size of bureaucracies. Yet the ad ...

1128 Ch. 27 Rebuilding Divided Europe (Left) Winston Churchill giving his famous “V for Victory” sign. (Right) Charles de Gaulle ...

Politics in the West in the Post-War Era 1129 have a weak executive authority, de Gaulle resigned from government in Jan­ uary 1 ...

1130 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe Political Realignments Backed by the Soviet Union and its secret police, Communist gover ...

Political Realignments 1131 opposition to the Nazis, hostility to the Soviets and to East Germany, and his social conservatism r ...