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Russia joins the Soviet Union
Russia Joins Soviet UnionIn 1922, Russia joined the Soviet Union. Russia did not become the Soviet Union. After the Russian Revolution, Russia became the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. In December 1922, it joined with Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation and that union became the Soviet Union. -
During World War II, Joseph Stalin took leadership of the USSR
Joseph Stalin-video Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin Gained control of the Soviet Union. Stalin's rule had long lasting effects on the features that characterized the Soviet state. The Soviet Union under Stalin made a major contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany during WWII (known in the USSR as the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45). After the war, Stalin established the USSR as one of the two superpowers in the world. -
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World War II
US and USSR conflict During WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union began to see each other as enemies rather than allies. This is because the United States did not agree with the choices that the Soviet Union had made. Both leaders (US and USSR) tried again and again to come up with a compromise, but everything they tried they could not agree. This eventually led to the Cold War which happened shortly after World War II. -
Joseph Stalin led the soviet Union in battle against Nazi Germany
Stalin From the beginning of operational planning, German military and police authorities intended to wage a war of annihilation against the Communist state as well as the Jews of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin would lead soviet troops into a long hard fought battle with no victor until world war 2 ended in 1945. He had no knolegde of the power of the nazi forces when going into war. -
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The United States and the Soviet Union (after becoming allies in WWII) turned on each other in a conflict called the Cold War
The Soviet Union and the United StatesThe United States gave the Soviet Union and other countries millions of dollars worth of weapons and other support for there fight against Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described this territory as being behind an Iron Curtain. The division provided the framework for the Cold War which ran from roughly 1947-1991. -
Mikhail Gorbachev gains power of the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev-videoCollaspe of USSRWhen Mikhail Gorbachev took power. he wanted there to be more rights for the people of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev introduced two new Russian words: "perestroika" meaning restructuring and "glasnost" meaning openness. Gorbachev allowed people to stir their own nations ("perestroika") and also allowed them freedom of speech/expression ("glasnost").
Gorbachev wanted to sign a treaty that allowed each of the 15 republics independence. This is because all the republics demanded independence. -
Mikhail Gorbachev gave more economic and political freedom to the Soviet people
Fall of USSR In the mid-1980s, Gorbachev decided to propose the idea of democracy in some of the republics. Gorbachev used "perestroika" and "glasnost" to show that he cared for the people and he wanted them to have independence. Gorbachev decided that his reform ideas were so important that he published a book about them. The Soviet people agreed with his ideas at first, but then soon the Soviet people began to gain too much power. -
Berlin Wall falls and in the next month, communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania (all part of the USSR)
Communism-fall of USSR The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961. However it took about three decades until the Wall was torn down. In 1989 the first free labor union was founded in the communist Poland. The communist governments in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania fell in December of 1989. The end of the communist system had begun. -
Soviet Union passes a law allowing republics to break away
falloftheUSSRIn June of 1990, the Russian president Boris Yeltsin declared that he wanted to remove Russia from the USSR and become independent. Military leaders came to Moscow to try and stop the falling of the USSR. Unfortunately it did not work too well. Gorbachev was slowly moving to the bottom and Yeltsin was quickly rising to the top. Soviet people began to enjoy political and economical freedom so much that each republic started to elect a representative. -
The Soviet Union fell
The Fall of the USSRThe Fall of the Soviet Union-videoThe Soviet Union was the largest communist country in the world which centered mainly in Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev had come into power in 1985 which had changed the communist Soviet Union forever. He had given each republic independence. The economic and political views of the Soviet people had changed forever. After the Soviet Union fell apart, the region divided into 15 different independent republics. Each new republic set up their own government and elected their own leader.
