During World War II, Soviet Russia in Eastern Europe began to seize countries and introduce communism form of government. The Term Satellite states given by Americans to describe countries as they held by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union began to collapse in the 1980s with growing unrest within the various satellite states. After the fall of the Soviet Union, fifteen new nations emerged includes, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, etc.
<span>During the age of absolutism, several European monarchs intensified the power of their authority by emphasizing their divine right to rule and centralizing their power.</span>
