2.++History+1918-2000

Period 2 History 1918-2000 By: Wayland Li and Surya Pulukuri

=World War II=

Adolf Hitler (above) led Nazis to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. This brought the Soviet Union into World War II. Soon the Soviet Union join with the United States and the United Kingdom and defeated the Nazis.

=Cold war=



The Cold war was when the United States and the Soviet Union went to war,they both even launched rocket into space for the space race.Finally in 1991 the Soviet Union broke into 15 republics(including russia). State emblem of the Soviet UnionSoviet Union

These are the 15 countries that the Soviet Union broke up into
 * > russia || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Flag_of_Russia_1991-1993.svg/20px-Flag_of_Russia_1991-1993.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Georgia] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Georgia_%281990-2004%29.svg/20px-Flag_of_Georgia_%281990-2004%29.svg.png width="20" height="12"]] ||
 * > [|Ukraine] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/20px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png width="20" height="13"]] ||
 * > [|Moldova] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/20px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Belarus] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Flag_of_Belarus_%281991-1995%29.svg/20px-Flag_of_Belarus_%281991-1995%29.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Armenia] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/20px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Azerbaijan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/20px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Kazakhstan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg/20px-Flag_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Uzbekistan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/20px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Turkmenistan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Turkmen_SSR.svg/20px-Flag_of_Turkmen_SSR.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Kyrgyzstan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flag_of_Kyrgyz_SSR.svg/20px-Flag_of_Kyrgyz_SSR.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Tajikistan] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Flag_of_Tajik_SSR.svg/20px-Flag_of_Tajik_SSR.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Estonia3] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/20px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png width="20" height="13"]] ||
 * > [|Latvia3] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/20px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||
 * > [|Lithuania3] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Lithuania_1989-2004.svg/20px-Flag_of_Lithuania_1989-2004.svg.png width="20" height="10"]] ||