19 17 12.5, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was founded. 19 18, the western part of Ukraine (west of the Dnieper River) was occupied by Poland. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, and eastern Ukraine became one of the founding countries of the Soviet Union. 1939, 1 1 year1October, Soviet troops entered eastern Poland and merged western Ukraine with Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1940 In August, part of North Bukovina and Bissalabia, which were originally Romanian territories, were merged into Ukraine. 194 1 year, Ukraine was occupied by German fascists, 1944, 10 year, Ukraine was liberated. 1945 10, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a non-independent country, joined the United Nations with the Soviet Union and became one of the founding members of the United Nations. 1954, Khrushchev handed over Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, making it a state of Ukraine.

1On July 6, 990, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declared that the Constitution and laws of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were superior to those of the Chinese Soviet Socialist Republic and it had the right to establish its own armed forces. 199 1 On August 24th, Ukraine officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union, formed the Commonwealth of Independent States with Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries, and changed its name to Ukraine.