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The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War-era territorial conflict between the Soviet Union and Turkey. ... On 30 May 1953, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov ...
The Soviet Union had long objected to the Montreux Convention of 1936 which gave Turkey sole control over shipping between the Bosphorus strait, an essential waterway for Russian exports. When the 1925 Soviet-Turkish Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality expired in 1945, the Soviet side chose not to renew the treaty.
Turkish Straits crisis: August 7, 1946: May 30, 1953 Turkey United States Soviet Union: Southern Europe: First Indochina War: December 19, 1946: August 1, 1954: France State of Vietnam Kingdom of Laos Kingdom of Cambodia: Viet Minh Khmer Issarak Pathet Lao Japanese holdout Supported by: Soviet Union China (since 1949) Southeast Asia: Eastern ...
On 1 March 1953, Stalin's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha. [114] He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. [115] Stalin died on 5 March 1953. [116] An autopsy revealed that he had died of a cerebral hemorrhage and that he also suffered from severe damage to his cerebral arteries due to atherosclerosis. [117]
1936–1953: Turkish Straits crisis; 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War; 1938: 1938 Greek coup d'état attempt; 1939: German occupation of Czechoslovakia; 1939: Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine; 1939: Italian invasion of Albania; 1939–1965: Spanish Maquis; 1939–1940: S-Plan; 1939–1945: World War II. 1939: Nazi German invasion of Poland
The Turkish straits. At the conclusion of World War II, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet government to allow Russian shipping to flow freely through the Turkish straits, which connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. As the Turkish government would not submit to the Soviet Union's requests, tensions arose in the region, leading to a show ...
In 1945, Turkish Straits crisis developed over requested Russian military bases in the Turkish Straits as a part of Soviet territorial claims against Turkey. After World War II, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet government to allow Russian shipping to pass freely through the Turkish Straits. Turkish Straits connected the Black Sea to the ...
The Cold War (1948–1953) is the period within the Cold War from the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953. The list of world leaders in these years is as follows: 1948–49: Clement Attlee (UK); Harry Truman (US); Vincent Auriol (France); Joseph Stalin (USSR); Chiang Kai-shek (China)