World Strategic History: 1970


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 1960:

Angola
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1961
Algeria
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1962
Burma
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1962
Yemen (North)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1962
Congo Republic
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1963
Brazil
(upgraded to partly Communist 1961; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1964
Bolivia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1964
Mozambique
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1964
Tanzania
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1964
Zambia
(Northern Rhodesia)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1964
Colombia
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1965
Congo
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1965
Burundi
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1966
Ghana
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1966
Guyana
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1966
Indonesia
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1966
South-West Africa
(South Africa)
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1966
Cambodia
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1967
Gaza, Sinai, Golan
(Egypt & Syria, now Israel)
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 
1967
Uganda
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1967
Yemen (South)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1967
Libya
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1969
Philippines
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1969
Somalia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1969
Sudan
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 
1969
Chile
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 
1970


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover:

Albania
 
1944
 
Algeria
 
1962
 
Bulgaria
 
1944
 
Burma
 
1962
 
Burundi
 
1966
 
China (mainland)
 
1949
 
Congo Republic
 
1963
 
Cuba
 
1959
 
Czechoslovakia
 
1939
 
Egypt
 
1952
 
Germany (East)
 
1933
 
Guinea
 
1958
 
Guyana
 
1966
 
Hungary
 
1944
 
Iraq
 
1958
 
Korea (North)
 
1945
 
Libya
 
1969
 
Mali
 
1960
 
Mongolia
 
1921
 
Poland
 
1939
 
Romania
 
1944
 
Somalia
 
1969
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 
1922
 
Sudan
 
1969
 
Syria
 
1949
 
Tanzania
 
1964
 
Vietnam (North)
 
1954
 
Yemen (North)
 
1962
 
Yemen (South)
 
1967
 
Yugoslavia
 
1941
 
Zambia
 
1964
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Angola
 
1961
Cambodia
 
1967
Chile
 
1970
Colombia
 
1965
Cyprus
 
1955
Laos
 
1946
Mozambique
 
1964
Philippines
 
1969
Senegal
 
1960
South-West Africa
(South Africa)
 
1966
Uganda
 
1967
Vietnam (South)
 
1956