postwar Europe
Marshall Plan recipient
Postwar Europe refers to the European continent in the period following World War II, roughly 1945 through the 1950s.
The term evokes a specific historical landscape: bombed cities, displaced populations, the Marshall Plan, the division into Western and Soviet spheres, and the early formation of what became the European Union.
Postwar Europe saw unprecedented cooperation among former enemies.
- Potsdam Conference1945 summit reshaping Europe
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- United NationsInternational governmental organization
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- Treaty of Versailles1919 settlement ending WWI
Eastern Bloc · existentialism · NATO · Iron Curtain · Decolonization · atomic age · Berlin Wall · Soviet Union · labor migration · guest workers · Yalta Conference · war crimes trials · Common Market · Warsaw Pact · displaced persons · refugee crisis · denazification · IMF
- Cold War OriginsIron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift
- Expatriate Literatureexpatriates, expatriate life, Lost Generation, Henry James, Ezra Pound