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The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War-era territorial ... the Soviets returned to the issue in 1945 and 1946. Throughout 1946, American and Turkish diplomats ...
The United States' firm opposition to Soviet-backed separatist movements in Turkey and Persia led to the crushing and re-annexation of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad (1946–1947) and Azeri Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946) by Persia. [1] Turkey joined the anti-Soviet military alliance NATO in 1952. Following the death of Stalin in ...
Soviet pressure expanded into a full demand to revise the Montreux Convention, which led to the 1946 Turkish Straits crisis and Turkey abandoning its policy of neutrality. In 1947, Turkey became the recipient of US military and economic assistance under the Truman Doctrine of containment and joined NATO along with Greece, in 1952.
Turkish Straits crisis The Turkish straits ... In 1946–47, the United States and the Soviet Union moved from being wartime allies to Cold War adversaries.
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 Turkish Straits crisis prompted İnönü to build closer ties with the Western powers, with the country eventually joining NATO in 1952, though by then he was no longer president. Factionalism between statists and liberals in the CHP led to the creation of the Democrat Party in 1946.
August 4 – The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 and leaving 20,000 homeless. August 7 – The Soviet Union escalates the Turkish Straits crisis through a diplomatic demand to Turkey. August 16
The actual reasons for the deportation remain debated, with some arguing that it was to keep minorities out of the Soviet Union's border regions [30] and others stating that it was done as a way of securing access to the Dardanelles strait in Turkey, across the Black Sea from Crimea, as a prelude to the Turkish straits crisis of 1946–1953. [31]