Chapter 29  After the Second World War, western European nations DID NOT experience: a renewal of intense and violent national rivalries.  Much of postwar European literature and philosophy reflected a mood of: despair and anxiety.

Chapter 29  The popular postwar philosophy, existentialism: was led by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, held that engagement, commitment, responsibility, and friendship are all possible and desirable in a world that is absurd, split over the relevance of Marxism, explored what it meant for humans to be adrift from their cultural guideposts without standards and values. (All of the above.)

Chapter 29  Antonio Gramsci was significant because: He rooted Marxism in a flexible and contextual political strategy.  The Berlin Wall symbolized the: polarization of Europe after World War II.  American culture in the postwar period was affected by: the wartime migration to America of many European artists and intellectuals.

Chapter 29  T. S. Eliot WAS NOT associated with existentialism.  Referring to the Chronology Chart in this chapter, which event was not a result of direct communist aggression or action: The Suez Crisis.

Chapter 29  As the United States came to share in the leadership of Western culture, many perceived that: America offered a culture combining technology, value-free social science, and scientific management, the old European way led to excessive theorizing, political extremism, and impasse, Americanism meant "the end of ideology, the American approach got things done by using experts.

Chapter 29  The key to the immediate postwar revival of Europe was: the Marshall Plan.  Imaginative renderings of familiar images refers to Pop Art.  What was NATO? The military coalition of the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe against communism.

Chapter 29  In western Europe: government intervention in the economy generally grew but was not uniform throughout the region, strong economic growth continued until the late 1960s, industrial production had regained 1938 levels by the end of the 1940s and doubled by the late 1950s, and nations took advantage of the need to rebuild by adopting up-to-date methods and technologies.

Chapter 29  In postwar western Europe, labor: began demanding more benefits in the 1960s.  Welfare states of one type or another: existed everywhere in western Europe in the postwar period.  Day care centers were private church controlled ventures WERE NOT a characteristic of Sweden's welfare.

Chapter 29  All of the following measures were taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany except: increasing the power of the multiparty Bundestag.  What was the Basic Law? It was the first post-war legal system that stabilized Germany.  Under the government of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany: was oriented toward the United States and the Atlantic bloc.

Chapter 29  Under Willy Brandt, West Germany: improved relations with East Germany and the rest of the Soviet bloc.  What is Ostpolitik ? It was Willy Brandt's attempt to improve relations with the Soviet bloc.