The Iran crisis of 1946 was one of the first confrontations of the Cold War. Soviet troops, which had occupied northern Iran during the Second World War, did not leave at the agreed time in early 1946 and supported separatist governments in Iranian Azerbaijan and in the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad. Iran appealed to the new United Nations Security Council, and the United States, under President Harry Truman, backed the demand for withdrawal. The Soviet Union agreed to leave in return for an oil concession, which the Iranian parliament later rejected. The Iranian army then reoccupied the north, and the two breakaway governments collapsed in late 1946.
Before and after
- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations
- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- from 27 October 1945 to 20 November 1945Battle of Surabaya
- 27 October 1945Birth of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- from November 1945 to December 19461946 Iran crisis
- from 2 November 1945 to 3 November 19451945 Cairo - Alexandria pogrom
- 11 November 1945Birth of Daniel Ortega
- 16 November 1945Founding of UNESCO
- 17 November 1945Birth of Abdelmadjid Tebboune
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