After the communist party took over, Russia and some countries it controlled were renamed <u>The USSR.</u>
Russia, as a communist state, had a great impact on the rest of the world. Many other countries became communist: China, North Korea and Cuba.
There was a division between communist countries and other countries, such as the USA. This period was known as the Cold War.
The USSR existed as a communist state until 1991.
The Supreme Court has the legal right to involve itself, because of large reasons. For the first reason, The race was tight enough, and no matter what, one of them was going to win. Bush was already 'winning', and so there really wasn't a point of recounting. Also, another reason is that a country cannot be without a leader. If this continued, the US will not have been following it's guideline (if they continue the previous president until finish counting), or will be leaderless. Also, the Supreme Court is there to regulate rules, and at this point, it is just exercising its rights.
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I believe its 1869
fun fact on the inventions timeline coca-cola was intruduced 8 May 1886 :P