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Korean war
The USSR never physically fought in the war bought supplied weapons and ammunaticion for the North Koreans -
Warsaw Pact
USSR fromed the Warsaw pact with its puppet countries to counter the NATO and the US. -
Nikita Khrushchev becomes leader
Khrushchev took over when Stalin died and was less harsh then Stalin. -
Poverty
The USSR did not feed its citizrens and many died of starvation or cold, they were not as funded as before. -
Cuban missle crisis
The USSR puts missles in Cuba to threaten the US while the US had missles in Turkey aimed at the USSR. -
Leonid Brezhnev takes over
He was a relaist and had a dream for a better USSR but died before he could implment it. -
Mikhail Gorbachev beomes president
Gorbachev was the most reasonable leader and even made the USSR a democracy and tore dow the Berlin wall.