Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1417 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Recognition and Rank: The USSR by 1939
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The idea
Britain and France recognized the Soviet Union in nineteen twenty-four, the United States in nineteen thirty-three. The command economy made it the third industrial power by nineteen thirty-nine, after the United States and Germany, and its army at parity with the West.
In practice
Allies against Germany and Japan, the aim.
Where people slip
The anchor's date for France is corrected.
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