The end of WW2 left these two countries as the only superpowers. The United States saw the Soviet Union as a revolutionary communist expansionist threat. The Soviet Union saw the United States as a counterrevolutionary imperialist threat.
The Soviet Union entered Hungary in 1945 at the end of World War II. In 1949, their presence was formalized with the creation of a communist state. Hungary remained under Soviet control until June of 1991 when the last troops finally left.
Communism fell apart in 1989, the final dissolution of the Soviet Union would have been 1990, and individual states would have been pushing for full independence soon after. The Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) were the first.
Years of economic stagnation left it far behind western and Asian countries
Hungary was left with a poor infrastructure.
The Soviet Union was the first country to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft.The United States was the first country to send a manned mission to the Moon.
Afghanistan by the Soviet Union became a serious issue between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1986.
The US was a capitalist state which left room for large businesses to grow compared to the Soviet Union which was under Communist rule.
There's not much left of the old Soviet Union, the Russians want to hold on to whats left.
The end of WW2 left these two countries as the only superpowers. The United States saw the Soviet Union as a revolutionary communist expansionist threat. The Soviet Union saw the United States as a counterrevolutionary imperialist threat.
They left it under control of the Soviet Union.
none. all the states were in the union. the otheones left the union.
Not anymore. The breakup of the Soviet Union left Kazakhstan with over a thousand Soviet warheads. However, all the nukes have since been shipped to Russia.
The Soviet Union entered Hungary in 1945 at the end of World War II. In 1949, their presence was formalized with the creation of a communist state. Hungary remained under Soviet control until June of 1991 when the last troops finally left.
No, the Soviet Union was a multinational state, although ethnic Russians were largely in control. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union established the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in eastern Siberia, with its capital in Birobidzhan. At its peak in the 1930s, when many Jews were relocated there, the area was 30 percent Jewish and Yiddish was widely used. Forceful relocation to eastern Siberia was not popular, and today, most of the Jews have left not only from the Jewish Autonomous Oblast but from the former Soviet Union.
The non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Years of economic stagnation left it far behind western and Asian countries