A Red Europe

Red Europe was an era during the Cold War and beyong in which Communism ruled over the entire European continent. The reason for this domination were the Continuation Wars which served to resume World War 2 shortly after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. Although the devastating Continuation Wars were largely due to Winston Churchill's Operation Unthinkable, President Harry S. Truman's ambitious foreign policy entailing not only the containment of Communism in Europe and the world, but the total eradicatiction of the Soviet Union was largely at blame too. Truman's approval of Operation Unthinkable had served to solidify what World War 2 was lacking