World Strategic History: 1980

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 1970:

Bangladesh (East Pakistan)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1971
Benin
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1972
Equatorial Guinea
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1972
Madagascar
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1972
Chile
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1973
Cape Verde
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1974
Ethiopia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1974
Guinea-Bissau
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1974
Niger
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1974
São Tomé & Príncipe
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1974
Angola
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1975
Mozambique
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1975
Portugal
(upgraded to partly Communist 1974; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1975
Vietnam (South)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1975
Cambodia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1975
Laos
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1975
Lebanon
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1975
Western Sahara
(Morocco)
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1976
Argentina
(upgraded to partly Communist 1973; downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1976
Seychelles
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1977
Afghanistan
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1978
Ghana
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Grenada
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Iran
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Mauritania
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Nicaragua
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1979
Suriname
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1980
El Salvador
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1980
Peru
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1980
Chad
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1980


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover
(and of neo-Communist renewal, where applicable):

Afghanistan
 		 1978
 
Albania
 		 1944
 
Algeria
 		 1962
 
Angola
 		 1975
 
Bangladesh (East Pakistan)
 		 1971
 
Benin
 		 1972
 
Bulgaria
 		 1944
 
Burma
 		 1962
 
Burundi
 		 1966
 
Cambodia
 		 1975
 
Cape Verde
 		 1974
 
China (mainland)
 		 1949
 
Congo Republic
 		 1963
 
Cuba
 		 1959
 
Czechoslovakia
 		 1939
 
Egypt
 		 1952
(renewal 1976)
 
Equatorial Guinea
 		 1972
 
Ethiopia
 		 1974
 
Germany (East)
 		 1933
 
Ghana
(originally Communist 1960-1966)
 		 1979
 
Grenada
 		 1979
 
Guinea
 		 1958
 
Guinea-Bissau
 		 1974
 
Guyana
 		 1966
 
Hungary
 		 1944
 
Iran
 		 1979
 
Iraq
 		 1958
 
Korea (North)
 		 1945
 
Laos
 		 1975
 
Libya
 		 1969
 
Madagascar
 		 1972
 
Mali
 		 1960
 
Mauritania
 		 1979
 
Mongolia
 		 1921
 
Mozambique
 		 1975
 
Nicaragua
 		 1979
 
Poland
 		 1939
 
Romania
 		 1944
 
São Tomé & Príncipe
 		 1974
 
Seychelles
 		 1977
 
Somalia
 		 1969
(renewal 1977)
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 		 1922
 
Sudan
 		 1969
 
Suriname
 		 1980
 
Syria
 		 1949
 
Tanzania
 		 1964
 
Vietnam
(North taken by Communists 1954)
 		 1975
 
Yemen (North)
 		 1962
 
Yemen (South)
 		 1967
 
Yugoslavia
 		 1941
 
Zambia
 		 1964
 
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
 		 1979
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Chad
 		 1980
Colombia
 		 1965
Cyprus
 		 1955
El Salvador
 		 1980
Lebanon
 		 1975
Niger
 		 1974
Peru
 		 1980
Philippines
 		 1969
Senegal
 		 1960
South-West Africa
(South Africa)
 		 1966
Uganda
 		 1967
Western Sahara (Morocco)
 		 1976