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

1166 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and the End of European Empires would accept a Soviet offer to finance the dam’s construction. On Jul ...

Decolonization 1167 later, British ally King Faisal II was assassinated in Iraq. When the island of Cyprus gained its independen ...

1168 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and the End of European Empires (Left) A Viet Minh fighter is taken prisoner by a French soldier in 1 ...

Decolonization 1169 and desirable. In February 1956, French residents in Algiers rioted against the government when French Premi ...

1170 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and the End of European Empires saw the fight in Algeria as a last stand for their honor. Early in 19 ...

Decolonization 1171 at all costs to keep Algeria French. In April it staged a coup d etat and held power in Algiers and in the c ...

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Decolonization 1173 the Kenyan African Union, which by the early 1950s encompassed almost the entire Kikuyu population. What bec ...

1174 Ch. 28 • The Cold War and tiie End oi European Empires However, the British government appeared in an increasingly bad ligh ...

Conclusion 1175 Movement, which emerged victorious. In Mozambique, too, the left won, despite assistance to the right by the Sou ...

CHAPTER 29 TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY AND THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM After almost two decades of growing prosperity and relative po ...

Transitions to Democracy and the Collapse of Communism 1177 Eastern Europe. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931— ), the leader of the Soviet ...

1178 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism Politics in a Changing Western World During the late 1960s, a loosely conn ...

Politics in a Changing Western World 1179 that if the two superpowers went to war, the battlefields (in conventional warfare) or ...

1180 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism An outnumbered policeman during the massive protests in Paris in May 1968. ...

Politics in a Changing Western World 1181 further political instability, although the Christian Democrats, forming a series of c ...

1182 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism Margaret Thatcher (1925- ), the daughter of a prosperous grocer from the E ...

Politics in a Changing Western World 1183 Charles in 1996. Despite the attachment of many people to the monarchy as an instituti ...

1184 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Facing a high unemployment rate and ...

Politics in a Changing Western World^1185 A nuclear power plant dwarfs a more traditional source of power. cradle-to-grave socia ...