The Cold War in Europe
This German city was divided between the Allies and the Soviets after WWII.
What is Berlin?
This country fought a bloody war for independence from France, gaining freedom in 1962.
What is Algeria?
This plan provided American aid to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This generation, born after WWII, came of age during the 1960s protest movements.
What is the baby boom generation?
This symbol of division fell in 1989, marking the decline of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This 2016 referendum led to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
What is Brexit?
This term described the division between Communist Eastern Europe and the democratic West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This term describes European withdrawal from colonies after WWII.
What is decolonization?
This 1957 treaty created the European Economic Community (EEC).
What is the Treaty of Rome?
This 1968 movement began as a student protest in Paris and spread across Europe.
What are the May 1968 protests?
This Polish labor union played a key role in ending communism in Poland.
What is Solidarity?
This rising political trend has challenged EU integration in recent years.
What is nationalism or right-wing populism?
This 1949 military alliance was formed to counter Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
This British colony was partitioned into India and Pakistan in 1947.
What is the British India?
This treaty, signed in 1992, formally created the European Union.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
This 20th-century ideology sought greater rights and equality for women
What is feminism?
He introduced the reforms of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This 2015 crisis involved a mass influx of people fleeing war-torn regions.
What is the European migrant crisis?
This 1955 alliance was the Eastern Bloc’s response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This French president supported a strong post-colonial France and withdrew from NATO’s military command.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
This currency was introduced in 2002 by many EU countries.
What is the Euro?
This influential French philosopher questioned structures of power and knowledge.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This 1989 event saw peaceful protests lead to the fall of East Germany’s regime.
What are the Monday Demonstrations?
These treaties and agreements attempted to limit carbon emissions and address global warming.
What are the Kyoto protocol and the Paris Agreement?
This 1968 Czechoslovak reform movement was crushed by the Soviet Union.
What is the Prague Spring?
These wars in the 1950s–1970s were often proxies for Cold War conflict in former colonies.
What are the Indochina wars or proxy wars? (Vietnam)
This crisis in the 2010s tested EU economic unity, especially in countries like Greece and Spain.
What is the Eurozone (sovereign debt) crisis?
This term describes a diverse, multicultural society that emerged in Western Europe after decolonization.
What is post-colonial or multicultural Europe.
This 1991 event marked the official collapse of the Soviet Union.
What is the resignation of Gorbachev and the dissolution of the USSR?
This 21st-century movement, particularly among youth, challenges economic inequality and climate inaction.
What is the environmental or climate justice movement