![]() ![]() On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviets are consolidating their power in Eastern Europe and building greater ties with China and India. Starting with the rearmament of Germany and then later Japan in the Western Bloc, the US attempted to form a bulwark against further communist encroachment. Confronted with this new reality and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949, the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand its containment doctrine. The Old World has been swept aside in the storm of war and a new one is taking shape but for better or worse this is the American Century.Ĭommunism has triumphed in China. The Vietminh has rebelled against their French colonial overlords while in South East Asia the Dutch are struggling to maintain control over their empire and with it the era of decolonisation has begun. Manchuria is occupied by the Soviet Union and Korea is divided between the USA and USSR. China is engulfed in the Chinese Civil War between the nationalists and the communists. In Asia, Iran is struggling to regain control over the northern part of the county. ![]() Eastern Europe is under the Soviet orbit and with each passing moment the USSR's stranglehold increases. In Greece a civil war is raging with communists in the north and government control in the south. Italy is edging between Communism and Democracy. In south of Europe a power struggle in between communists and governments is raging. Germany is divided in between the victorious nations from World War 2, the United States, the Soviet Union, the UK, and France. From Stettin to Trieste, an Iron curtain is descending upon Europe. ![]()
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