Question by Caticat: What events in 1949 made the Soviet Union become as powerful as hte United-States?
Can you tell me which events made the Soviet Union become so powerful. I already know about the atomic bomb and COMECON but I need to know what other things happened?
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Answer by Pandora
March 25 – An extensive deportation campaign is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
May 12 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
September 13 – The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.
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Robert Scarmount says
The Soviet Union successfully test its first atomic bomb, making it a nuclear power.