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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name              =  Alcide De Gasperi
| image             = De_Gasperi.JPG
| order           = Interim <br> [[President of the Italian Republic]]
| term_start	= [[June 12]], [[1946]]
| term_end	= [[July 1]], [[1946]]
| predecessor	= King [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| successor          = [[Enrico De Nicola]] 
(contracted; show full)tion on the incipient change in American foreign policy that would lead to the Cold War and in Italy the break with the Communists and left-wing Socialists and their removal from the government in May 1947.<ref>[http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=ies The Italian Stabilization of 1947: Domestic and International Factors], by Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva, Institute of European Studies, 2007</ref>

===1948 elections=== 
{{main|Italian general election, 1948}}

[[Image:Time DeGasperi.jpg|thumb|left|The cover of [http://www.time.com/ Time Magazine] of [[April 19]] 1948, featuring De Gasperi threatened by the Red (Communist) Octopus. {{ifdc|1=Image:Time DeGasperi.jpg|log=2008 November 16}}]]
The [[Italian general election, 1948|general elections in April 1948]] were heavily influenced by the cold-war confrontation between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]]. After the Soviet-inspired February 1948 communist coup in [[Czechoslovakia]], the US became alarmed about Soviet intentions and feared that, if the leftist coalition were to win the elections, the Soviet-funded [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI) would draw Italy into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. 

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