How did the Cold War and decolonization shape the postwar world?
United Nations Programs at Work, 1951As part of a UN assistance program, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provided milk to children in Greece in the aftermath of civil war in that country. (© Amerika Haus/SZ Photo/The Image Works)
TTHE BITTER RIVALRY BETWEEN the United States and the Soviet Union divided postwar Europe and became a Cold War — not an outright military confrontation between nations, but a long, tense standoff. As the Cold War took shape, activists and observers around the world debated the meaning of freedom and independence in a postcolonial world.