Operation Unthinkable(A Red Europe)

Operation Unthinkable & the Prelude to the Cold War

Full extent of Soviet controlled territory in Europe immedeately after WW2

Date

March 1947 - September 1952

Location

•Europe

•Siberia

•China

•Pacific Ocean

•Atlantic Ocean

•English Channel

•Mediterranean Sea

Result

•The Continuation Wars

•Soviet capture of the entire European continent

•Defeat of Turkey

•Invasion of neutral Switzerland

•Chinese Communist Party seize power in China

•Establishment of Soviet Satellite States from both East & Western Europe

•Great Britain invades Ireland, initiating the 'Second Irish War of Independence'

•Establishment of the 'International Marxist Coalition(IMC)' by the USSR

•Establishment of the 'World Democratic Union(WDU)' by the USA

•Collapse of the United Nations(UN)

•Beginning of the Cold War

•Collapse of the Empires of Britain & France

•Under the 'Moscow Agreement', the now Communist Empires of Western Europe begin the process of slowly relinquishing control of their colonies around the world.

Territorial Changes

•The newly established Communist states of Spain & Portugal sign the Treaty of Barcelona, establishing the Socialist Union of Iberia

•Great Britain annexes Ireland

•Turkey is incorporated I the Soviet Union

•Germany reunited to form the Socialist Republic of Germany

Belligerants

Label

🇲🇪

Strength

Eastern Powers

🇨🇳Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

🇲🇪Marxist Coalition of Europa (1945 - 1952)🇨🇳People's Republic China (1949- )

Allied Powers

🇺🇸United States of America

🇬🇧Great Britain

🇫🇷Free France

🏴‍☠Restored Wermatch Divisions (1945 - 1948)

🇧🇲Canada

🇧🇪Belgium

🇳🇱Netherlands

🇳🇴Norway

🇩🇪Federal Republic of Germany (1946 - 1948)

🇮🇹Democratic Republic of Italy (1949 - 1950)

Casualties and Losses