Europe 1946: The Iron Curtain Descends
19 April 1946
19 Apr 1946
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The Iron Curtain Descends
19 Apr 1946 The Iron Curtain Descends
10 Feb 1947 Paris Peace Treaties
1 Aug 1948 Berlin Airlift
7 Oct 1949 NATO and the Two Germanys
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7 Nov 1956 Suez Crisis
22 Feb 1958 Arab Nationalism
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10 Nov 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
By the time the Allies met at Potsdam in September 1945, it was clear that Stalin intended to retain tight control over the eastern European countries Soviet armies had occupied during the War. Western distrust grew with Soviet insistence on pushing Poland westward into lands containing millions of Germans not to mention increasing communist activity in Iran, Greece and on the Italo-Yugoslav border.
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