03-25-2021, 07:42 PM
The USA is about three years ahead of most of Europe, the postwar configuration of political life generally congealing some time between 1947 and 1949. The Crisis was over in Norway and the Netherlands with the rapid reversion to pre-war norms aside from losses of the vast majority of the Jewish population in the Netherlands. Tito's Communists rapidly gave up any pretension to pluralism in Yugoslavia by the autumn of 1945.
Whether the Commies would have significant power in France or Italy took a couple years to establish. Italy had a referendum on whether to be a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
Guessing on when the 1T began:
Soviet Union 1948 as it completed the collectivization of the Baltic countries, Moldavia, and what had been eastern Poland. Otherwise 1945.
UK 1945. As the shooting ended, back to normal.
Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland -- danger over.
Norway 1945 with the arrest of Quisling and associates.
Norway, Netherlands: German surrender.
Yugoslavia 1945 (see above)
Albania 1946: Communist consolidation of power
France, Italy 1946: see above.
Bulgaria 1946: Communist consolidation of power, abolition of the monarchy.
Denmark 1946: Soviet troops evaculate Bornholm.
Hungary 1947: Communist coup
Poland 1947: full consolidation of Communist power.
Romania late 1947: abdication of the monarch at gunpoint, complete obliteration of anti-Communist opposition
Czechoslovakia, early 1948: communist coup.
Finland mid-1948: failed Communist coup.
Greece 1948: failure of the Communist insurrection in the Greek Civil War.
western Germany 1948: Berlin air lift. Practical formation of the German Federal Republic (although full sovereignty was not complete until 1951)
eastern Germany 1949: formation of the DDR as a nominally-sovereign state.
Belgium had a crisis over the monarchy, occupation-related, not resolved until 1950
Austria did not achieve full independence and sovereignty until 1955.
Whether the Commies would have significant power in France or Italy took a couple years to establish. Italy had a referendum on whether to be a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
Guessing on when the 1T began:
Soviet Union 1948 as it completed the collectivization of the Baltic countries, Moldavia, and what had been eastern Poland. Otherwise 1945.
UK 1945. As the shooting ended, back to normal.
Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland -- danger over.
Norway 1945 with the arrest of Quisling and associates.
Norway, Netherlands: German surrender.
Yugoslavia 1945 (see above)
Albania 1946: Communist consolidation of power
France, Italy 1946: see above.
Bulgaria 1946: Communist consolidation of power, abolition of the monarchy.
Denmark 1946: Soviet troops evaculate Bornholm.
Hungary 1947: Communist coup
Poland 1947: full consolidation of Communist power.
Romania late 1947: abdication of the monarch at gunpoint, complete obliteration of anti-Communist opposition
Czechoslovakia, early 1948: communist coup.
Finland mid-1948: failed Communist coup.
Greece 1948: failure of the Communist insurrection in the Greek Civil War.
western Germany 1948: Berlin air lift. Practical formation of the German Federal Republic (although full sovereignty was not complete until 1951)
eastern Germany 1949: formation of the DDR as a nominally-sovereign state.
Belgium had a crisis over the monarchy, occupation-related, not resolved until 1950
Austria did not achieve full independence and sovereignty until 1955.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.