Following the war, the USSR retains the…

Following the war, the USSR retains the Baltic states; the Allies divide Germany into three Western-dominated sectors and a Soviet-ruled Eastern Zone.

The Allies divide Austria and its capital, Vienna, into four zones along the German model.

The United Nations forms.

The Soviets fold Eastern Europe into the apron of the Communist Bloc, drawing an ‘Iron Curtain’ between their new satellites and the capitalist nations of Western Europe.

Truman’s aid package keeps Greece and Turkey within the Western sphere.

British prime minister Clement Attlee states in 1946 that the Empire and Commonwealth is strategically indefensible.

His new goverment prepares for Indian independence.

Yugoslavia’s 1946 constitution reintegrates Croatia as a constituent province.

The Bulgarian monarchy is toppled in 1946 and replaced by a socialist republic.

Former Nazi General Rudolph Gehlen returns to Germany in 1946 to continue intelligence work for the US Army.

In 1946, waves of unexplained ghost rockets are seen in Europe, especially Scandinavia.

Moslems riot in India in 1946.

The Nuremburg trials end in October 1946 with death sentences for Hermann Goering and eleven other Nazis.

Three others receive life imprisonment, four recieve prison sentences, and three are acquitted.

Iran’s prime minister Ahmad Qavan signs an agreement allowing Russian development of oil fields.

Russian troops depart; the subsequent collapse of the Azerbaijan and Kurdistan republics allows Iran to regain control over the regions.

(Russia never pursues the Russo-Iranian oil agreement.)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered in 1946.

The countries of the nearer Middle East are decolonized in the post-war years (the Lebanon, Syria and Trans-Jordan in 1946; Egypt in 1947).