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An Union Treaty formally brings Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (the last three countries joined in 1936, but all three once were called Transcaucasus). Germany sees the Union Treaty taking place and regonizes the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is slowly moving east.
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Stalin came in as the General of Secertary of the Communist Party in 1922. He annouced of the Five Year plan that would help the economy or the country become an industrial leader. The First Five Year Plan was accepted in 1928, but did not start till 1929 and ended 1932 a year early. It was created to help Russia to have a rapid industrialization and focus on a heavy industry. Soviet Union then became the second largest economy after WWII.
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Germany and Soviet Union sign a Treaty or a non-agression Pact. Nazi Germany invades Poland using a method called blitzkrieg or lightning war where germany got all of its tanks and heavy weapons and took over Poland quickly, this started WWII
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Germany invades the USSR taking almost all of the land owned by the USSR in Eastern Europe. Germany surrounds Lenningrad and literally almost takes Moscow, but because of a counter attack Moscow is saved and Germany presses onto Stalingrad and almost gets to the front steps of Stalingrad.
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Stalin is dead, after killing more people than any other dictator before him is suceeded by Georgi Malenkov as prime minister and by Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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The Warshaw Pact or the Warshaw Treaty Organisation was created.
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Berlin Wall Created cutting Germany into 2, West and East Germany created.
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USA and the USSR sign the SALT 2 agreement.
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and fire realeased high quanties of radioactive contamination into the Earths Atmosphere. Some of the radioactive explosion got to the Western part of United States.
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Berlin Wall Falls and Comunnist Governments in many Eastern European Governments fall.
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The Dissoultion of the USSR was the process of disintegration, which occured in the economy, social and political structure. This resulted in the end of the Soviet Federal Government and the independence of the USSR
