1944-45 1946-48 Further
    Poland
    - SU marched in, defeated Polish Home Army
    - Polish Home Army revolt against Nazis in Warsaw, unsupported by the SU
    - Stalin installed the Lublin Committee & recognized January 1945
    - June 1945 Stalin installed democratic prov. gov. demanded in Yalta

    - intimidated election 1947
    Hungary
    - weak communist power
    - Arrows Cross
    - SU control but to a large extent free determination
    - 1945-1947: transparent elections
    - March 1948: Socialist and Communist parties merged
    - 1949 election, can only vote for merged party members
    Czechoslovakia
    - Democratic gov. headed by Benes willing to cooperate
    - Communist leader Klement Gottwald willing to take power peacefully
    - against West due to Munich Agreement 1938

    - democratic gov. wanted to join Paris conference negotiating MP; but SU refused
    - Feb. 1948 Gottwald asked to get tough & communist coup
    - Feb. 1948 murder of Masaryk
    Finland
    - 1939 Winter War
    - 1944 invasion by SU; reparations but no coup of gov.
    - weak communist party

    - reparations, no forced imposition
    - SU only demanded the ports of Petsamo
    Romania
    - invaded by SU August 1944
    - king’s armistice w/ SU for SU control
    - SU established National Democratic Front led by communist power

    - March 1946: socialist and communist party merged
    - electoral success due to multiple aspects
    - April 1948: communist People’s Republic declared
    Bulgaria
    - invaded by SU September 1944
    - already had a patriortic front by communists and collaborating parties
    - Stalin urged the communist leaders to include more non-communist members to appeal to the West but they didn’t listen

    - opposition parties outlawed
    - opposition leaders murdered
    - Nikola Petkov from the Agrarian Party
    Yugoslavia & Albania
    Balkan states
    - granted to the USSR from the Potsdam conference
    Greece
    - % agreement & Potsdam: SU to not interfere
    - December 1944 Greek revolution
    - monarchist supported by UK vs. ELAS (People’s Liberation Army)

    - Feb. 1947: UK can no longer sustain
    - March 1947: TD
    - June 1947: MP
    Iran
    - war: UK & SU joint occupation
    - to leave Iran after 6 months of war end
    - SU didn’t leave + demand Soviet-Iranian oil company + Azerbaijan republic
    - US pressure & SU retreated
    Turkey
    - August 1946: SU demanded Turkey to ignore Montreux Convention
    - US battle fleets in Mediteranean sea & threatening notes to SU
    Germany
    - Morgenthau plan
    - April 1946: KPD and SPD merged for SED
    - 1948-49: Berlin blockade
    - 1949: FRG, GDR
    Austria
    - occupied by the Red Army; occupied but neutral

    - occupied by the Red Army; occupied but neutral
    northern Norway
    - 1945-46 SU pulled their troops out
    Baltic states
    - 1945-46 SU pulled their troops out