Think As Historian: THINK AS A HISTORIAN: SITUATE THE COLD WAR IN CONTEXT

How could two nations—the United States and the Soviet Union— fight so fiercely together as allies in World War II and then part ways so dramatically after the war that they created a Cold War that set the world on edge? Studying the context from which the Cold War arose and tracing continuity and change will help answer that question.

On separate paper, make a chart like the one below to situate the Cold War in context. Identify in what areas there was continuity and in what areas there was change.