Stalin .
Stalin
Josef Stalin
The Soviet Unioon and the United States.
Russia was invaded by Germany..............................
Led to Cold War
Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, Imperial Japan, led by Emperor Hirohito, and/or Soviet Russia, led by Josef Stalin.
Gorbachev
collapse of the Soviet Union
They emerged as the two superpowers. They both were very strong and showed their strength in World War 2. The power of these two superpowers led to the Cold War.
The Soviet Union invading Afghanistan is what ended detente between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet war in Afghanistan began in 1979.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990.