<Li> Kaliningrad Oblast, the northern half of East Prussia, taken in 1945 . </Li> <P> Between 1945 and 1949 the Soviets converted the following areas into Soviet satellite states: </P> <Ul> <Li> The German Democratic Republic </Li> <Li> The People's Republic of Bulgaria </Li> <Li> The People's Republic of Poland </Li> <Li> The Hungarian People's Republic </Li> <Li> The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic </Li> <Li> The People's Republic of Romania </Li> <Li> The People's Socialist Republic of Albania (which re-aligned itself in the 1960s away from the Soviet Union and towards the People's Republic of China) </Li> </Ul> <Li> The German Democratic Republic </Li>

Which soviet-controlled countries made up the iron curtain