Soviet Union (USSR)

The Soviet Union was formed through a treaty which was signed by the members. This happened in 1922 and the member parties were Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and Transcaucasian. Each of these countries was ruled by Bolshevik parties.

No, they are completely different in many ways. The Soviet Union no longer even exists. Some countries that were in it are now members of the European Union, but that is about the only connection.

The USSR tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949.

For the Soviets, the war became veryexpensive and this became one of the factors which led to the fall of the U.S.S.R. After the Soviets left, Afghanistan's communist government was overthrown and the countrydevolved into a civil war. The Taliban won and becameAfghanistan'snew government, which ultimately led to the U.S. war inAfghanistan.

everywhere. Stalin wanted the world's workers to revolt against capitalism

official records said 16, but doubtless it was more.

None, they shared a common border.

................................................................................since when did Poland dissappear??...look at a map

Obvious differences: They used the symbol of a RED star; we used the WHITE star symbol. Both nations had the letters US to begin the title of their country. Both nations geographically extended to both the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans. Both nations experienced frontier movements: US citizens "went west", Soviet citizens explored "east" (Siberia). Opposite Governments: They believed that SOCIETY came first. We believed that INDIVIDUALS came first. The first ten amendments of the US Constitution's "Bill of Rights" are individual freedoms. They are not to protect a group of people (a society); they are to protect each and every single individual United States Human Being.

The USSR believed in socialist ways of living for their citizens. The US believed in individualism for its citizens.

Brezhnev became the Soviet leader after Khruschev.

Mikhail Gorbacheu

Stalin enforced education because he needed the kids in school to grow up and continue with the communist ideas, he needed intelligent workers. he influenced you children and made them think communist was good. therefore the children would carry on his ideas.

The collapse of the Soviet Union had no central place of occurrence, but was rather a historical change with many different locations. In the USSR itself, the late 1980s saw the major reform movements, known as glasnost and perestroika. These movements signaled increasing individual liberties, especially freedom of the press and of expression, and economic privatisation. These reforms, combined with the Soviet failure in Afghanistan, increasing military expenditures, economic stagnation, and influx of Western information lead to unrest in the Warsaw Pact. The first major changes happened in the Soviet satellite states, primarily East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. In these states, democratic movements had sprung up and challenged the communist stranglehold on power. As the parties could no longer main control, the USSR refused to use military intervention as they had before (see: the Hungarian Uprising of 1956; the Prague Spring). Subsequently, the regimes rapidly collapsed in these countries from the period of 1989-1991. Later, the collapse began to spread to the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia), Belorussia, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia itself. By 1993, all of these countries had become independent, along with the Central Asian states, where the collapse occurred last.

Through the suppression of people, and the common ideal of communism, it threatened the western civilization.

The European countries that were successful in resisting the Soviets joined NATO. NATO was successful because it had more nuclear weapons than the Soviets had, as well as having a system of government that was economically superior to communism.

Brezhnev Doctrine.

Tsarist Russia had an economy based on virtual slavery. Serfs bonded to the land working for subsistance and little else. The 1917 October Revolution, amongst other things, gave the promise of a "Workers State", a land of universal bliss and harmony where those who worked would reap the rewards of their toil. After 70 odd years, although the USSR had become a world power, not much had changed for the workers, they were still enslaved to the government. During the 1980's, many of the neighbouring "Soviet Bloc" countries had moved away from the Communist ideal and adopted a market economy. Others were moving towards this objective. This was helped along quite a bit by Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika. Finally, the Soviet people took the initiative and demanded free and democratic elections and conducted something of a mini, and relatively bloodless revolution which resulted in Boris Yeltsin leading the country, which rapidly became a market economy and experienced hyper inflation in the process. The 20th Century was a tumultuous period for Russia/USSR and there is a lot to be learned from their experience. The Russian people have certainly paid their dues and are to be admired for what they have endured and what they have achieved in spite of years of oppression, war and terror.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

They disregarded it and chose to take care of themselves and their "new satellite nations" now known as the Eastern Bloc.

The United Nations .

Probably Kursk, in the summer of 1943. The Soviets had complete intelligence of German attack plans, and prepared defenses in depth, up to fifty miles in depth actually. After absorbing the German attack the Russians went over to the counter-offensive, and never stopped rolling until they reached Berlin. The Germans never again had the strength to mount another massive offensive, or regain the initiative.

But your question would also describe Moscow, in December, 1941. The Germans had reached the outskirts of Moscow, could hear the clock bells downtown. After learning from spies that the Japanese had no plans to attack in the east while the Germans savaged them in the west, the Soviets moved hundreds of thousands of troops from the east and counterattacked, and the Germans were never again anywhere near Moscow. Losing Moscow might have been the end for the Russians.

If you're asking for school your teacher might be wanting Stalingrad, but that was more an epic defense by the Soviets, not a true counter-offensive.

Launching of Sputnik

they were both the initial strikes in the first signs of a world war

Glasnost and perestroika

By allowing greater freedom in Czechoslovakia, they risked the other warsaw pact countries demanding the freedom.

if Czechoslovakia was allied to the west, it would create a frontier for the Americans to match into Russian Ukraine from west Germany

increased tariffs and taxes

new issues of paper money

the sale of bonds