Straits Crisis (Dies Irae)

Low level: 20 July 1936 – 6 August 1946
High level: 7 August 1946 – 7 June 1962

Turkish Straits crisis
	Part of the Cold War
	; The location of the Bosphorus (red) and Dardanelles (yellow) straits.
Date	Low level:; 20 July 1936 – 6 August 1946; High level:; 7 August 1946 – 7 June 1962;
Location	Black Sea; Sea of Marmara;
Result	Beginning of World War III Launch of Operation Sophia; Turkey joins Washington Accords;
Belligerents
Turkey; Supported by: United States	Germany
Commanders and leaders
İsmet İnönü; Adnan Menderes; Thomas E. Dewey; Dwight Eisenhower;	Adolf Hitler

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The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War-era conflict between a multitude of nations. Turkey had remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War. After the war ended, Turkey was pressured by the German government to institute joint military control of passage through Turkish Straits, which connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. When the Turkish government refused, tensions in the region rose, leading to an Axis show of force and demands for territorial concessions in the Turkish Balkans.