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Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. //United States History: Modern America//. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.

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1. In the 1940's the soviet union was a great power and essential too WWII. 2. They were widely known because of there very large military. They prove the sense of "strength in numbers" 3. The Soviet Union before WWII were full of communism and communist had ruled the nation. 4. After the war the Soviet Union rose too become one of the 2 leading powers of the world, along with the U.S. 5. It was only second place because some of the damage was done on there land while U.S. was unscaved. 6. The soviet union were communist, they basically wanted full control with the government 7. The united states won the cold war, united states had shown that totalitarianism and communism are not better than democracy and capitalism. 8. There economy was good because it was the leading producer of gold and chromium 9. The population of russia was over 143 million and dropped too 140 million 10. Russians were not very well taken care of, they suffered poverty and starvation in many countries 11.The communist were overthrown in 1945 in Eastern European nations. 12. In one of the most symbolic times of all in 1989 East Europeans tore down the Berlin Wall that was created by communist to seperate eastern and western Europe. 13. Through the 1980's the Soviet Union was in a war with Afghanistan and the arms race created trouble for the economy. 14. The communist party chose Mikhail Gorbachev as their new leader in 1985. 15 He launched a campaign called perestroika to change soviet society but it did not work and he resigned in 1991. 16. The one nation in russia started its fight for independence and it was estonia. 17.In december of 1991 the soviet union was split up into 15 countries. 18.
 * The fall of the Soviet Union

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