how soviet union became a superpower?
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Militarily, the USSR became a power from prior war experience from WWII, thus creating a well trained, well disciplined army with a proud military history that could be used as a show of force. 5. A large pool of people that could be used to supplement the industry and military.
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After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in November 1917, overthrowing the liberal Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and its successor state, the Soviet Union.
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Following the American embargo, the Soviet Union became Cuba's main ally. The two Communist countries quickly developed close military and intelligence ties, culminating in the stationing of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, an act which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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In 1955, the Soviet Union and its satellites signed the Warsaw Pact. Like NATO, the Pact pledged each nation to defend the others in the alliance. However, the Soviet Union also used the pact to keep control over its satellites.
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Perestroika was an economic policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev to the U.S.S.R. in 1985. Perestroika means 'restructuring,' and was an attempt to improve the failing communist command economy. It attempted to make the economy more efficient by introducing some free-market strategies.
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Not only was the Soviet Union communist, they were totalitarian, meaning all the power was with the rulers. The United States was capitalist which meant that people could own land and businesses and compete for themselves.
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The Soviet Union began competing at the Olympics in 1956 and won nine straight Olympic medals, including seven gold. The Soviet Union broke up in 1991, and in 1992, a Unified Team composed mainly of former Soviet players won gold. Teams from Canada have won the most medals, with fifteen, including nine gold.
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Economic Effects of the Second World War : Vast parts of Europe and Asia were destroyed. US emerged as the dominant economic and political power. (ii) Emergence of Soviet Union as a super power is another important effect. Being the leader of the communist bloc it posed great threat to capitalist economy.
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A world power is a very large and powerful government. A superpower is a fictional ability that certain people have in things like Comic Books.
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About one-quarter of its territory was in Europe, and the rest in Asia. The territory of the USSR was dominated by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic—having the same borders as contemporary Russia—which covered roughly three-quarters of the surface area of the union.
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After World War II, the Soviet Union extended its control into Eastern Europe. It took over the governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Only Greece and occupied Austria remained free.
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The United States came to the aid of South Korea at the head of a United Nations force composed of more than a dozen countries. Communist China joined North Korea in the war in November 1950, unleashing a massive Chinese ground attack against American forces. The Soviet Union also covertly supported North Korea.
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In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he rose to become dictator of the Soviet Union, using a combination of manipulation and terror to destroy his opposition. ... Following the October Revolution, Stalin took military positions in the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War.
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Answer and Explanation: Three consequences of World War II include the United States and the Soviet Union becoming world superpowers, the European borders being redrawn, and...
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U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941–1945. Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War II, the U.S.-Soviet alliance of 1941–1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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1898: The Birth of a Superpower. The global equilibrium, which had allowed the United States to grow and prosper in virtual isolation since 1815 was gone forever as the result of a short but shattering war.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation moved towards a more open economy with less state intervention, and Russia became an important part of the global economy. In 1998, Russia joined the G8, a forum of eight large developed countries, six of which are members of NATO.