EUROPE AFTER WW II MAP ACTIVITY



EUROPE AFTER WWII MAP ACTIVITY Name ________________________ Hr. ______

Directions: Using the following page numbers, complete the exercises below. Focus on neatness and accuracy. Use blue or black pen to label countries before shading them with colored pencils or crayons. NO MARKERS! NO PENCIL! pp.528-29, 532, 535, 549-50, Atlas at beginning of book

1. LABEL the following water areas and SHADE them BLUE.

Atlantic Ocean Baltic Sea Mediterranean Sea Black Sea North Sea Adriatic Sea

2. The following countries became allied with the “Free World” (democracies) after WWII.

LABEL them on the map and lightly SHADE them GREEN.

Belgium Greece Denmark Iceland Northern Ireland

Italy Portugal Norway France Great Britain

Turkey Netherlands West Germany Luxembourg

3. The following countries became part of the “Communist Sphere of Influence” after WWII. LABEL them on the map and SHADE them RED.

Albania Bulgaria Romania Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia

Poland Hungary East Germany Soviet Union (USSR)

4. LABEL the following “Neutral” nations on the map and SHADE them BROWN.

Austria Finland Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland

5. Locate with a dot and LABEL the city of Berlin.

6. Winston Churchill stated that an “Iron Curtain” had descended upon Europe after WWII.

A) Define Iron Curtain = _________________________________________________________________

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B) Carefully DRAW and LABEL the Iron Curtain on your map.

7. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

A) Define NATO = ________________________________________________________________________

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B) The first 15 NATO member nations were:

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8. DRAW diagonal lines ( / / / / ) through the NATO member nations on your map.

9. Warsaw Pact

A) Define Warsaw Pact = _________________________________________________________________

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B) The member nations of the Warsaw Pact were:

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10. What 2 NATO member nations lie East of the Iron Curtain? _______________ & _______________

What communist nation in Europe was not a member of the Warsaw Pact? ________________

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