Communist takeover of Eastern Europe
1945–1948 · Event
Salami tactics, rigged elections and the Prague coup: by 1948 Red Army-backed Communist parties control Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia; East Germany follows as a separate state in 1949.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, Cold War, Russia & the USSR
More from Eastern Europe & the Balkans
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Founding of Czechoslovakia (1918)
Around 1945
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)