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

1132 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe The Soviet-occupied eastern zone of Germany became in 1949 the Ger­ man Democratic Repub ...

Political Realignments 1133 Czechoslovakia alone in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans had not become a dictatorship bet ...

1134 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe The economic development of the German Democratic Republic, how­ ever short on freedom, ...

Political Realignments 1135 In Yugoslavia, Communist leader Tito refused to permit Soviet domina­ tion of his multinational coun ...

1136 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe In February 1956, Khrushchev denounced Stalins “cult of personality” and his ruthless pu ...

Changing Contours of Life 1137 able. Many writers and artists seemed overwhelmed with pessimism, even hopelessness, in the face ...

1138 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe A gathering of intellectuals after the war, including Jean-Paul Sartre (seated left), Al ...

Changing Contours of Life 1139 Yet Europe also continued to embrace some aspects of U.S. culture. World War 11 brought only a br ...

1140 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe by one generation could be genetically inherited. Stalin’s particular interest in this t ...

Changing Contours of Life 1141 priests” entered factories in the 1950s, trying to win back workers to the Church while supportin ...

1142 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe An Urban World Europe rapidly urbanized following World War II. In the German industrial ...

Changing Contours of Life 1143 in droves. North American, Asian, and African destinations became more common for Europeans. The ...

1144 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe Delivering Coca-Cola in Venice. few were without one. In the mid-1980s, the U.S.-based C ...

Changing Contours of Life 1145 Oil and the Global Economy The Six-Day Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and the 1973 Yom Kippur War both ...

1146 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe the ability of European states to support their extensive social services. The oil crisi ...

CHAPTER 28 THE COLD WAR AND THE END OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES 1 he post-war period brought two major developments to West­ ern Europe. ...

1148 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and the End of European Empires Cold War helped prevent any possible return to the relative isolation ...

Cold War 1149 times more destructive than those that had leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the 1950s, children in the Unite ...

1150 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and the End of European Empires In Greece, the departure of German troops led to a bloody civil war t ...

Cold War 1151 The Korean War (1950-/953) Adjoining China, Korea had a Communist “people’s republic” in the north, supported by t ...