Russia (Source: Photo by Michael Parulava on Unsplash)

USSR- history of history!

Tsar Nicholas II (Source: Peace Palace Library)
Bloody Sunday Massacre (Source: The Moscow Times)
Vladimir Lenin (Source: Marina Amaral)
Joseph Stalin (Source: Biography)
  • By the end of WW-II, after the US detonated atomic bombs namely “Fatman” on Nagasaki and “Little Boy” on Hiroshima in Japan. This began the arms race between the two nations with each testing their bombs to show their true military powers to the world. Though in 1991 after USSR disintegrated the START Treaty (Strategic Arms and Reduction Treaty) was signed which required both the US and Russia to reduce their total number of nuclear warheads and bombs.
  • Also, after the eastern expansion of the Soviet Union from WW-II, it was feared that Russia would take control over the world and communism would spread throughout.
38 Parallel Border (Source: Britannica)
  • In 1950, the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel border to invade South Korea. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union whereas South Korea was backed by the US. By 1953, the Korean War ended.
  • US formed the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which represented the western bloc nations in 1949 to stand against the threat posed by the Soviet Union. In May 1955, West Germany joined NATO which further fueled the Soviet Union to form the Warsaw Pact which represented the eastern bloc nations. East Germany joined the Warsaw Pact. Though the pact was dissolved in 1991 after USSR was divided into separate nations. And Germany was reunified in 1990, almost a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Alan Shephard(left) and Neil Armstrong(right) (Source: Pinterest)
  • They competed with each other in Space exploration. After Russia launched Sputnik in 1957- the world’s first artificial satellite, the US’s NASA launched Explorer One in 1958. Then Yuri Gagarin from Russia became the first man launched in space. Coming to the US, Alan Shephard from NASA was launched to space the same year after a month. The space war seemed to be on the US’s side when they landed on Moon with Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot on Moon.
Mikhail Gorbachev (Source: Time)
Boris Yeltsin (Source: Britannica)

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