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

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 ...

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 ...