World Strategic History: 1950


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 1940:

Yugoslavia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1941
Ethiopia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1941
Eritrea
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1941
Somalia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1941
Egypt
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1942
Libya
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1942
Morocco
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1943
Algeria
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1943
Tunisia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1943
Albania
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1944
Romania
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1944
Bulgaria
(upgraded to partly Communist 1941; upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1944
Hungary
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1944
Vietnam (North)
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1944
Italy
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Belgium
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Luxembourg
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Netherlands
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Denmark
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Norway
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Austria (West)
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Germany (West)
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1945
Korea (North)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1945
Cambodia
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1945
Indonesia
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1945
France
(Southern France upgraded to fully Communist 1942; all France downgraded to partly Communist 1944; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1946
Argentina
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1946
Laos
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1946
Iran
(upgraded to partly Communist 1941; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1946
Bolivia
(upgraded to partly Communist 1943; downgraded to officially non-Communist 1946; upgraded again to partly Communist)
 
1949
Greece
(upgraded to partly Communist 1941; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1949
China (mainland)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1949
Syria
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1949
Tibet (now Red China)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1950
Hainan (China, now Red China)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1950


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover:

Albania
 
1944
 
Austria (East)
 
1938
 
Bulgaria
 
1944
 
China (mainland)
 
1949
 
Czechoslovakia
 
1939
 
Germany (East)
 
1933
 
Hungary
 
1944
 
Korea (North)
 
1945
 
Mongolia
 
1921
 
Poland
 
1939
 
Romania
 
1944
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 
1922
 
Syria
 
1949
 
Yugoslavia
 
1941
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Argentina
 
1946
Bolivia
 
1949
Cambodia
 
1945
Indonesia
 
1945
Laos
 
1946
Vietnam (North)
 
1944