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| 1946 |
| | | The Communists become the largest party in Czechoslovakia, winning 38% of the vote in a free election | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Communist leader Enver Hoxha begins nearly 40 years as dictator of Albania | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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| 1947 |
| | | President Truman defines postwar US policy by pledging support for any nation defending itself against Communism | |
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| 1948 |
| | | An armed coup, led by Klement Gottwald, imposes single-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Mao Zedong, standing on the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, proclaims the new People's Republic of China | |
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| 1949 May 30 |
| | | The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic | |
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