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These included opening an Anglo-French front in the Balkans , invading Attack Norway to seize control of Germany 's main source of iron ore and a strike Attack against the Soviet Union , to cut off Removing its supply of oil to Germany .

The importance of the putsch and subsequent invasion in delaying Operation Barbarossa , the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union , is disputed Quarreling but most scholars now consider that it had no significant impact Influence on the eventual outcome of that campaign .

Convoys , coming Self_motion mainly from North America and predominantly going to Self_motion the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union , were protected Preventing_or_letting for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces .

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union ( USSR ) and Finland .

The League of Nations deemed Coming_to_believe the attack illegal and expelled Removing the Soviet Union from the organisation .

Many sources conclude Coming_to_believe that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland , and use Using the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 's secret protocols as evidence of this , while other sources argue Agree_or_refuse_to_act against the idea of the full Soviet conquest .

Finland repelled Defending Soviet attacks for more than two months and inflicted Causation substantial losses on the invaders while temperatures ranged as low as .

After the Soviet military reorganised Reforming_a_system and adopted Choosing different tactics , they renewed Recovering their offensive in February and overcame Conquering Finnish defences .

Finland ceded Surrendering 11 percent of its territory representing 30 percent of its economy to the Soviet Union .

Soviet losses were heavy , and the country 's international reputation suffered Bodily_harm .

Soviet gains exceeded Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale their pre-war demands and the USSR received Receiving substantial territory along Lake Ladoga and in northern Finland .

The poor performance of the Red Army encouraged Adolf Hitler to think that an attack on the Soviet Union would be successful and confirmed Check negative Western opinions of the Soviet military .

It was held in the Soviet Union 's embassy in Tehran , Iran .

It was the first of the World War II conferences Social_event of the `` Big Three '' Allied leaders ( the Soviet Union , the United States , and the United Kingdom ) .

Both the United States and the Soviet Union initiated Process_start massive resupply efforts to their respective allies during the war , and this led to Causation a near-confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers .

This development led to Causation tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union , and a second ceasefire was imposed Action cooperatively on October 25 to end the war .

Egypt continued its drift away from the Soviet Union and eventually left Departing the Soviet sphere of influence entirely .

Sweden became Becoming world champions for the fifth time , and the Soviet Union won their 27th European title Name_conferral .

This would be the last year that a separate European title Name_conferral would be awarded Giving , which the Soviets captured Getting in their last appearance before the dissolution of the Soviet Union seven months later .

Their position in Group A would be inherited Giving by Russia , while newly independent former Soviet member states Belarus , Estonia , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Lithuania , and Ukraine began Process_start play in 1993 in qualification tournaments Competition for Group C. The tournament Competition itself would change Change significantly after this year as well .

The Petrograd Soviet 's `` Order Number 1 '' tremendously weakened Cause_change_of_strength the power of officers , giving Giving an over-riding mandate to `` soldier committees '' .

At exactly the same time the Soviet Union carried out Action a parallel operation , dubbed Name_conferral `` Operation West '' , in the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviet Union at exactly the same time .

Operation West was conducted Action in West Ukraine by the Soviet NKVD and targeted Aiming the families of suspected UPA members .

China fought Hostile_encounter Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States .

Despite continuing to occupy part of China 's territory , Japan eventually surrendered Surrendering on September 2 , 1945 , to Allied forces following the atomic bombings Attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion Attack of Japanese-held Manchuria .

Aeroflot Flight 8381 was a scheduled flight of a twin-engine Tupolev Tu-134 that departed Departing Tallinn Airport in Estonian SSR , Soviet Union , at 10:38 am on 3 May 1985 , for Chişinău in Moldavian SSR , Soviet Union making a stopover Temporary_stay at Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union .

Both aircraft lost Earnings_and_losses their right wings and tails , went out of control Control and crashed Catastrophe about one or two minutes later near the village of Zolochiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union , killing Killing all 94 people on both aircraft .

Among the victims of the disaster Catastrophe were graphics artist Alexander Aksinin , the young Estonian table-tennis player Alari Lindmäe ( born 15 September 1967 ) and two generals of the Soviet Army .

The captain of the Aeroflot aircraft , Nikolai Dmitrijev ( born 18 October 1931 ) , was a Hero of Socialist Labor and one of the Soviet Union 's most decorated civil airline pilots .

The Polish–Soviet War Hostile_encounter ( 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921 ) was fought Hostile_encounter by the Second Polish Republic , the Ukrainian People 's Republic and the proto-Soviet Union ( Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ) over a region comparable to today 's westernmost Ukraine and parts of modern Belarus .

The Soviet operation pushed Self_motion the Polish forces back westward all the way to the Polish capital , Warsaw , while the Directorate of Ukraine fled Escaping to Western Europe .

Western fears of Soviet troops arriving at Arriving the German frontiers increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the interest of Western powers in the war Hostile_encounter .

The Peace of Riga was signed on Sign_agreement 18 March 1921 , dividing the disputed territories between Poland and Soviet Russia .

North Vietnam was supported Supporting by the Soviet Union , China , and other communist allies ; South Vietnam was supported by the United States , South Korea , the Philippines , Australia , Thailand and other anti-communist allies .

: `` Qaʾilih Âzarbâyjân '' ) in the Iranian sources , was one of the first crises of the Cold War , sparked Causation by the refusal of Joseph Stalin 's Soviet Union to relinquish GiveUp occupied Iranian territory , despite repeated assurances .

The United States pressured Influence Soviet withdrawal in the earliest success of the new containment strategy .

Therefore , the bloc known as 'The Allies ' were principally ( with Poland and France occupied Control by Germany in 1939 and 1940 , respectively ) the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union , recently forming their alliance after the German invasion of territories of the Western Soviet Union in June 1941 .

In August–September 1941 , Pahlavi Iran had been jointly invaded Attack and occupied Control by the Allied powers of the Soviet Red Army in the north and by the British in the centre and south .

Iran was used Using by the Americans and the British as a transportation route to provide Supply vital supplies to the Soviet Union 's war efforts .

Soon , the alliance of the Kurdish and People 's Azerbaijani forces , supported Supporting in arms and training by the Soviet Union , engaged in fighting with Iranian forces , resulting in a total of 2,000 casualties .

Negotiation by Iranian premier Ahmad Qavam and diplomatic pressure on the Soviets by the United States eventually led to Causation Soviet withdrawal and dissolution of the separatist Azeri and Kurdish states .

The dropping Motion_directional of atomic weapons on two Japanese cities and the hammer-blow Soviet invasion of Japanese Manchuria , however , caused Causation the Japanese government to surrender Surrendering without an armed invasion being necessary .

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