World Strategic History: 1960

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 1950:

Egypt
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1952
Bolivia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1952
Iran
(upgraded to partly Communist 1951; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1953
Algeria
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1954
Cambodia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1954
Vietnam (North)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1954
Argentina
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1955
Austria
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1955
Cyprus
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1955
Vietnam (South)
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1956
Guinea
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1958
Iraq
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1958
Lebanon
(upgraded to partly Communist 1958; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1958
Cuba
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1959
Congo
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1960
Ghana
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1960
Mali
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1960
Senegal
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1960


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover:

Albania
 		 1944
 
Bolivia
 		 1952
 
Bulgaria
 		 1944
 
China (mainland)
 		 1949
 
Cuba
 		 1959
 
Czechoslovakia
 		 1939
 
Egypt
 		 1952
 
Germany (East)
 		 1933
 
Ghana
 		 1960
 
Guinea
 		 1958
 
Hungary
 		 1944
 
Iraq
 		 1958
 
Korea (North)
 		 1945
 
Mali
 		 1960
 
Mongolia
 		 1921
 
Poland
 		 1939
 
Romania
 		 1944
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 		 1922
 
Syria
 		 1949
 
Vietnam (North)
 		 1954
 
Yugoslavia
 		 1941
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Algeria
 		 1954
Congo
 		 1960
Cyprus
 		 1955
Indonesia
 		 1945
Laos
 		 1946
Senegal
 		 1960
Vietnam (South)
 		 1956