After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Explain trends in intellectual and mass Western culture developing during the cold war;
2. Discuss the process of postwar Western political and economic restructuring;
3. Analyze factors contributing to the West and particularly Europe's changing role in the world;
4. Evaluate the rationale and success of rebuilding in the Soviet bloc;
5. Assess how social, political, and economic problems forced change in the West after 1968;
6. Explain the causes of the fall of communism in east-central Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union.