USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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In what year did the USSR join

(A) 1933

(B) ** 1934

(C) 1935

(D) 1936

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Admission of the USSR to the League On 15 September 1934 the Soviet Government with no surprise received a tele-gram from the representatives of 30 States members inviting the USSR to join the League of Nations and to give to it its “valuable collaboration".

Concept note-2: -A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia (modern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The newly established Communist Party, led by Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took control of the government.

Concept note-3: -Soviets were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

Concept note-4: -In the 1930s, Stalin intensified his war on organized religion. Nearly all churches and monasteries were closed and tens of thousands of clergymen were imprisoned or executed.

Concept note-5: -On 28 December 1922, a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.