U.S.-Soviet<span> Alliance, 1941–1945. Although </span>relations between<span> the </span>Soviet Union<span>and the </span>United States<span> had been strained in the years before </span>World War II<span>, the </span>U.S.-Soviet<span> alliance of 1941–1945 </span>was<span> marked by a great degree of cooperation and </span>was<span> essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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<span>Mindaugas was the first "grand duke" or president he was later killed by his nephew</span>
