Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

According to When Technology Fails Chernobyl Accident, “two mammoth explosions blew apart Unit #4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat in the Ukrainian republic of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what is now the independent country of Ukraine.” The explosions had many damaging effects to all around it. The crew that had been working at the unit at the time with the reactor was killed almost instantly…

ending up in the hands of the Russian empire, becoming highly populated with Jewish people. Until the early 1900’s the Jews where they were killed off by a Russian movement that led to the Polish- Russian war. In 1921, it became the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The idea of a nuclear power plant was not on the agenda for another 56 years. There were about 50,000 people in the immediate area with another 200,000, within a 20-mile radius. Willis, C.…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…