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Turkey joined the anti-Soviet military alliance NATO in 1952. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government renounced its territorial claims on Turkey, as part of an effort to promote friendly relations with the transcontinental country and its alliance partner, the United States. [6]
Until the latter half of the 1930s, Soviet–Turkish relations were cordial and somewhat fraternal. At the request of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Vladimir Lenin provided crucial military and financial aid to the Turkish National Movement in its struggle against the Ottoman monarchy and Western occupiers; two million gold Imperial rubles, 60,000 rifles, and 100 artillery pieces were sent in the ...
The Protocol defined a "neutral zone" between the Sheikhdom of Kuwait and Sultanate of Nejd. The State of Kuwait inherited the United Kingdom's territorial claim when it gained independence in 1961. In 1965, a separation line was drawn halfway through the neutral zone; Qaruh and Umm al Maradim are north of the line.
Soviet territorial claims against Turkey This page was last edited on 25 October 2019, at 21:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Sino-Soviet border conflict; Sixty-Four Villages East of the River; Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia; Soviet annexation of Transcarpathia; Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia; Soviet territorial claims against Turkey; Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941)
The new polish territories east of the Curzon line were taken back by the Soviet Union in 1939 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact after the Soviet-German invasion of Poland, and include major cities, like Lviv (Lwów) (nowadays Ukraine), Vilnius (Wilno) (today the capital of Lithuania), and Hrodna (Grodno) (Belarus), which all had a majority ...
Turkey joined the anti-Soviet NATO military alliance in 1952. [22] Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet government renounced its territorial claims on Turkey as part of an effort to promote friendly relations with the Middle Eastern country and its alliance partner, the United States. [21] The Soviet Union continued to honor the ...
During the Cold War (1945–1991), the Turkish Straits crisis of 1945 developed over the request by Joseph Stalin for Soviet military bases in the Turkish Straits as a part of Soviet territorial claims against Turkey, which prompted the United States to declare the Truman Doctrine in 1947. [3]