Iran crisis of 1946
1945–1946 · Event
Stalin's troops stay in northern Iran backing Azeri and Kurdish republics; under UN and US pressure they withdraw: an early Cold War confrontation.
On these timelines: Cold War, Persia and Iran, Master
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
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)