The Arctic Circle runs across Alaska and Russia. The Arctic Circle is at 66 degrees 32 minutes N latitude and marks the point on the Earth's surface where the Sun does not appear above the horizon at the Winter Solstice. It also marks the southernmost point of the Arctic Frigid Zone.
Alaska
Russia (Soviet Union)
The Cold War was between the Soviet Union and Western democracies.
Alaska had never been a part of the "Soviet Union" but it had been a part of Russia before Russia formed the Soviet Union. Russia agreed to sell the land that is now Alaska to the United States in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars. The deal was then known as Seward's Folly after Secretary of State William H. Seward, who brokered the deal. It doesn't look like such folly now.
The main goal was to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe
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The Former Soviet Union (Russia)
the Soviet Union.
Alaska
The Bering Strait.
It's the Bering Strait.
Russia (Soviet Union)
The Soviet Union was the actual country itself. The Soviet Bloc was a group of supposedly independent countries which were really controlled by the Soviet Union.
The Cold War was between the Soviet Union and Western democracies.
The Cold War resulted from lack of trust between the U.S and The Soviet Union.
The war was between the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan, started when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
The main goal was to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe