Britain and France were in ruins immediately after WW2 ended in 1945, which is when the cold war began. The US and USSR were the "big boys" on the block; and they had the face off (stand-off), commencing at the East/West Berlin line.
Europe
Whatever the rest of Europe felt, they felt it too. Britain, cold war wise, was part of Europe.
Europe was shielded by the US.
USSR, Great Britain, America, France
Britain did not want to weaken it's forces in Europe by sending troops to Vietnam.
Israel invaded Egypt along with Britain and France.
The term Cold War came from Churchill.
The Mistral is a cold wind from the north-west that blows down through France to the Mediterranean Sea.
WW2 had a massive impact on Europe with many cities reduced to piles of rubble, creating a power vacuum. Most of Eastern Europe was occupied by the Red Army while the rest of Europe was dominated by France, Great Britain and the US.
America, Britain, Canada, France and other NATO countries facing the Soviet Union
They where part of the Cold War, because they were part of NATO, which is basically a defence pact of allies, which includes Canada, France, Britain, Russia, etc.
when the french had a revolution the whole of other european states imitate