were portugal, iceland, and albania at all affected by the cold war?

Question

from 1945 to the construction of the berlin wall in 1961

Answer 1

ICELAND - In May 1951, the United States and Iceland signed an agreement on the permanent presence of American forces on the island. The arrangement was in many ways momentous. For the first time in its history, the United States had made a bilateral defense pact with another state. (1) Also, troops were stationed in Iceland in peacetime for the first time since the settlement of the island over 1,100 years ago. When the first contingent arrived, a Bank of England official who dealt with Icelandic matters in London summed up the significance of its appearance by saying that from now on the Icelanders, having survived for so long without permanent military forces, would live in "the shadow of the Superfortress."

PORTUGAL-
Since the end of the war, Russia had set up pro-Russian communist governments in eastern and central Europe. By 1948 the Cominform had been formed and Russia had concluded mutual assistance treaties with Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania. The confrontation over Berlin (1948-49) and the formation of NATO meant that the Cold War would continue. West Germany was essential to an overall defence system in Europe. As her economy advanced rapidly after 1950, her rearmament was of great help to the defence of western Europe. Because of Britain's promise not to withdraw her NATO forces from Europe (in order to counterbalance the German forces), France did not object to the admittance of West Germany into the NATO and West Germany's rearmament in the 9 Power Conference of 195

The Soviet Union looked at these anti-communist moves with fear. She concluded the Warsaw Pact with her satellites in May 1955. It included all communist states in Europe except Yugoslavia - Soviet Russia, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.



ALBANIA -
In some parts of the Balkans, overt Russian occupation ended early in the Cold War. Red Army units never reached Albania, and the Red Army merely passed through Yugoslavia in 1944, never to return. The Red Army left Bulgaria in 1947. By 1949, there were only 6 Russian divisions in all of Hungary, Romania and Austria. Russian troops left Austria after it became a neutral state in 1955, and left Romania in 1958. Thereafter, Hungary was the only Balkan state with a Russian garrison: having arrived in force in 1956, Russian troops remained there until 1991.

Answer 2

First, whilst the crimson military grew to become into pushing into Germany from the East, it went via extremely some Nazi-occupied countries including Poland, what was once Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc. and set up its very own "puppet governments." america had already been careful from Communism because of fact the 1st crimson Scare interior the early Nineteen Twenties, and after the war ended, america enticed many eu international places with the help of featuring the Marshall Plan which helped rebuild maximum of Western Europe. besides, mutual suspicion between the Soviet Union and america grew to become into construction after the Soviets found out that america had concealed progression of a atomic bombs from it. additionally, Stalin resented america for no longer beginning a 2nd-front in West Europe extra immediately, which he believed might distract German forces that have been ravaging the Soviet Union, additionally, the profession of Germany additionally created many disputes such because of fact the Berlin Blockade, shape of the Berlin Wall, etc. finally, on the top of the war, the U.S. liberated what's now South Korea from Japan and the Soviets what's now North Korea. Their effect further approximately their new governments, which might at last bring about the Korean war interior the Fifties.