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

Contents xix

Economic Recovery and Prosperity, the Welfare State,

and European Economic Cooperation 1119

Economic Cooperation • The Post-War Baby Boom •

The Green Revolution • Welfare States

Politics in the West in the Post-War Era 1 127

Political Realignments 1130 Divided Germany •

Eastern Europe under the Soviet Shadow • The Soviet

Union and Its Satellites in the Post-War Era

Changing Contours of Life 1 136 Intellectual

Currents in the Post-War Era • Advances for Women •

Catholicism in Modern Europe • An Urban World •

Living Better • Oil and the Global Economy

Conclusion 1146

Chapter 28 The Cold War and the End of European

Empires 1 1 47

Cold War 1147 The Korean War (1950-1953) •

Stirrings in Eastern Europe • Soviet—U.S. Tensions •

Sino-Soviet Rivalry • The Brezhnev Era • Nuclear

Weapons and Superpower Tensions

Decolonization 1160 Decolonization in South and

Southeast Asia • Britain and the Middle East • The

Suez Canal Crisis • French Decolonization •

Decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Conclusion 1175

Chapter 29 Transitions to Democracy and the Collapse

of Communism 1176

Politics in a Changing Western World 1 178 Student

Protests Challenge Gaullist France • Shifts in Western

European Politics after 1968 • The Transition to

Democracy in Southern Europe

Religious and Ethnic Conflicts 1187

The Fall of Communism 1188 Resistance to Soviet

Domination • The Gorbachev Era • Transition to

Parliamentary Government in Poland and Hungary

• The Collapse of the Berlin Wall and of East
  German Communism • The “Velvet Revolution” in