January 11th

== Information==

What:
Truce signed in Greek Civil War

Where:
Greece

Year:
1945

Information and Significance
Since the end of the World War II, Greece had been in choas. Greece had benn occupied by the Axis powers during the war, namely Italy, but for a short time Germany. British forces liberated the country and started rebuilding it under a democractic government. However, in an attempt to complete his Iron Curtain, Stalin funded a Communist insurgency group. The democratic government and the communists fought a short, but bloody civil war, which ultimately resulted in a victory by the government. Both sides signed a truce that was in fact a surrender by the Communists. This victory meant that only Greece and Turkey remained as US allies in the Soviet-controlled Balkans, and would see the two nations as important bases for American nuclear devices, which were ready to strike the Soviet Union at a moments notice.