Soviet Union (USSR)

Actually the "iron curtain" did not "tighten the soviet hold". The term "iron curtain" was a fictitious symbolic name used by Winston Churchill to describe the hold the Russians had over the Eastern Bloc. The hold the soviets had over eastern Europe was already tight before the term became popular.

The Russian winter made it his Waterloo.

In the eyes of the government of the Soviet Union, every nation that it couldn't influence or conquer was a threat. In fact the Soviet Union was a very real threat to every non-communist nation on the planet, and a real threat to Communist China.

Soviet Detroit is a Communist Group formed by the Russian Mafia. It's a secret organization that is at war with the Michigan militia.

Mikhail Gorbachev. (Actually they had never achievedCommunism.)

The society faced economic depression. This became the cause of mental depression. They became materialistic and was no space for emotion. It was the hostile condition and one would not even to think about it.

From the government. (they were allocated)

Probably the most important result of Lenin's death was that the feud between Trotsky and Stalin developed into a struggle for power. Trotsky believed in international revolution, while Stalin was quite content for communism to be based in one country with himself at the head.

Stalin was successful and became effectively a dictator while Trotsky was exiled.

They agreed to gradually reduce the amount of nuclear weapons held by each country - the did not, however, agree to reduce the number of warheads carried by each missile !

The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on the 3rd March 1918 at Brest in Belarus between the Russians led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Central Powers German army.

Yes. Not as Republic of Armenia, but as Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Well, at the start of WW2, only Bukovina and Bessarabia were part of the Soviet Union. But later on, a lot of Northern Romania was.

Type your answer here... Massive retaliation

I'd say there was no winner. The USSR did collapse later on mainly because it did not have funds coming into its nuclear program like the US did.

But let's just consider the Cold War just as it is.

Reagan getting credit for the end of the Cold War is just incorrect because the final end of the Cold War was in the time of JFK.

Russia did take it's missiles out of Cuba as JFK asked but let's face it, the USSR wasn't going to launch an attack. And even if it was, it didn't need to be 26 or so miles away from it's target, it could have guided it eastward from the Soviet Union (If they could sent sputnik I and II our of earth's atmosphere, they could have launched a missile to the US). Reagan started negotiations with Gorbachev but in the end, Kennedy finished it.

Gorbachev played a very significant role, which Americans tend to ignore but it has to be noted that the US was in shock after the first sputnik launch. Gorbachev on the other hand was no Stalin. He was quite a peaceful man who sought to put an end to the war and give the Soviet Union a chance at peace after the long devastation under the hands of Hitler and then Stalin.

I don't see Gorbachev as having any intention at firing the nuclear weapons because the U.S. couldn't afford an attack like that and a retaliation could have very well ended in Armageddon for the entire world. The USSR put the missiles in Cuba just to get it out and in return, the US had to give up several "leverages" that it had on the USSR in terms of weapons.

And after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. continued and still continues to make weapons of mass destruction.

There were many ways in which the Soviet Union suffered under Stalin's reign. Three major examples of this include the punishment Stalin would place on communists when they would deviate from his political views or commit espionage; the famine he brought on the people of the Soviet Union in an attempt to further his own political goals; and forced labor camps that he made the Soviet citizens live in.

Stalin's goals for the Soviet Union included a line of countries defending it--he wanted the Soviet Union to be the world's dominant power.

First and foremost, Stalin's economic plan was to increase the Soviet Union's industrial capacity. To do this, Stalin instituted a series of Five Year Plans geared mainly toward increasing industrial output, but also increasing its agricultural output.

Stalin had stated in a speech that Russia had been conquered in the past by many invaders because it was a backward country, especially economically. He believed that the Soviet Union had fallen behind the West by 150 years. He stated that in order for socialist Soviet Union to survive among the capitalist countries, it must catch up to the West within 10 years. The first plan set goals for increasing industrial capacity that were met in 4 years, although some speculate that those figures were as much Propaganda as were his political pronouncements.

What few know is that he "realized" his industrial goals on the backs of the peasant farmers, starving millions by taking their crops for export to obtain the money needed to industrialize the country.

It did not. In 1939 the Soviet Union had a non-agression pact with Germany which led to the invasion of Poland; a British ally. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union was seen as a possible enemy, but there was no fighting between Britain and the Soviet Union. When Germany violated the pact and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union found themselves fighting on the same side against Germany, although they were far from the best of friends. After World War 2 they were adversaries again in the Cold War, but still they did not fight, at least not openly.

We secretly (ha ha...) helped the mujahadeen, the Afghan freedom fighters who opposed the Soviet invasion. We helped them because they killed Communists. We gave them modern weapons and training in how to defeat a larger, well-armed and well-trained fighting force in tanks and helicopter gunships. We taught them how to make roadside bombs to blow up convoys of trucks. We taught them basically everthing they know about modern warfare. Guess who they're using it against now?...

Sputnik

satellites

IMPROVEMENT.

Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania.

I hoped the yalta conference in the Atlantic solidified any plans for a counter attack against Germany.

russian and other neighboring languages

The core of the USSR, the Russian Federation.

Richard Nixon was the first American President to visit the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949. Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai agreed to exchange cultural contacts between the two nations. Nixon helped establish the Open Door Policy, which ensured that all nations had equal trading privileges with China.