World Strategic History: 1940


Legend:

Nations under essential or full Communist control

Openly Communist-dominated governments, or Communist-controlled regions within the country

Nations in which Communist control remains more concealed (or insufficient information to make a determination)


Changes since 1930:

Germany
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1933
Ethiopia
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1936
Austria
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1938
Czechoslovakia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1939
Albania
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1939
Spain
(upgraded to fully Communist 1936; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1939
Poland
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1939
Lithuania (now Soviet Union)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1939
Latvia (now Soviet Union)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Estonia (now Soviet Union)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Finland
(upgraded to partly Communist 1939; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1940
Moldova (Bessarabia; Romania, now Soviet Union)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Denmark
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Norway
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Netherlands
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Belgium
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Luxembourg
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
France (Northern)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1940
Romania
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1940
Egypt
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1940


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover:

Austria
 
1938
 
Belgium
 
1940
 
Czechoslovakia
 
1939
 
Denmark
 
1940
 
France (Northern)
 
1940
 
Germany
 
1933
 
Luxembourg
 
1940
 
Mongolia
 
1921
 
Netherlands
 
1940
 
Norway
 
1940
 
Poland
 
1939
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 
1922
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Albania
 
1939
China
 
1920
Egypt
 
1940
Eritrea
 
1922
Ethiopia
 
1936
Italian Somaliland
 
1922
Italy
 
1922
Libya
 
1922
Romania
 
1940