At the Potsdam conference in 1945, the leaders of the allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin) decided how post war Europe was to be divided. They also decided how Japan was to be finished off. They agreed that Russia would not interfere with America's war with Japan until a certain date. The US "finished" Japan off before this date with the atomic bomb.
Oct. 24, 1945
6 yrs.It began on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945.
Technically Russia, the Soviet Union was formed shortly after so most recognize The Soviet Union (there is a big different, Russia usually implies the country itself, the Soviet Union was a union of Russia, the baltics, central Asian countries, Georgia and neighborhing countries, and some of the slavic nations)
Integration of Western Europe in the Capitalist sphere of influence, promoting democratic governments with the Marshall Plan, to prevent a domino effect that would lead to the spread of socialism. Why? Economic dominance by US corporations across the globe.
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The iron curtain was the border that divided Europe between the democratic west and the communist east. It lasted from 1945 to 1991.
A major change in Western Europe in 1945-1989 was the post war rebuilding of Germany. Germany was divided into East and West Germany.
Well The Warsaw pact was announced immediately after the war was over. The Soviet Union had total domination over those states which became the U.S.S.R. Germany was split between east and west, one being totally democratic while the other was a State run by the Communist. Europe became divided at the end of world war 2 because of the Communist influence Russia had on a lot of neighboring countries.
In 1945 after Communist rule as the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
The nation of Montenegro used to be part of Yugoslavia, and it therefore had a communist government during the period of 1945 - 1990, between the end of WW II and the fall of communism in Europe.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1945 in the ashes of WWII in Europe.
Taiwanese Communist Party ended in 1945.
It was the line between the free nations of Europe and the nations under Soviet domination during the Cold War (c. 1945-1990). The countries of Eastern Europe and their citizens were under the authority of the USSR under one form or another until late in the 20th century.
Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation ended in 1945.
The "Leaque of Nations", established in the Versailles Treaty of 1919/20, was replaced by the UN in 1945 after WWII ended in Europe.
In April, 1945. With 50 nations