The Cold War, 1945–1991 · THE MAP IN
Map of Europe in May 1945
Where the armies stopped · Cold War
Europe in May 1945: Where the armies stopped. The map shows who held what: NATO & core Western allies, Soviet-aligned states, USSR & Warsaw Pact.
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On the ground
- east under Soviet occupation; from 1949 the German Democratic Republic
- eastern zone (with Vienna’s Soviet sector) under Soviet occupation until the 1955 State Treaty
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