Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country located in East and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west.
==History==
===Pre-Modern times===
Mongolia is a nation famous for it's proud history of conquest, with Mongolians being the scourge of Europe for many years, invading it many times and conquering entire nations underneath the Mongol banner. However, as time went on, Mongolia started to become less and less important and relevant in the changing world, evolving from the bane of Europe and an unstoppable force to a land of peaceful farmers squeezed between Russia and China, not taking much part in many conflicts.
For most of it's recent history, most of Mongolia was under control of China; but as the Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911, Mongolia declared independence, but it wasn't accepted as an independent state until ten years later.
===Cold War===
thumb|250px|Mongolian People's Army during the Cold WarShortly after the death of Bogd Khaan, the last monarch of Mongolia the monarchy was replaced by the communist government of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in 1924, and the country was renamed the Mongolian People's Republic. Naturally, the Soviet Union made it one of it's first lapdogs - a sign of things to come with other Communist countries that sprung up after the Second World War.
Mongolia was a source of many unpleasant disagreements between the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, with China still desiring to have control over the region. Mongolia's foreign relations outside of these two countries were initially limited to the other Eastern Bloc countries, with Mongolia establishing first diplomatic relations with a Western country, the United Kingdom, in 1961, to establish them with the United States took even longer - until 1987, near the beggining of the Third World War. Mongolia was also a member of the COMECON.
===Third World War===
During the Third World War, Mongolia was one of the countries which were a part of the global communist strike on the free world, except Mongolia did not do much during the war. Being a peaceful country of yak farmers and horse-riders, and with a military that wasn't as powerful, general secretary Jambyn Batmönkh did not want to possibly encourage the wrath of NATO and abstained from invading Asia alongside other Red Asian states.
After the war ended, Mongolia was not held responsible for it, as it's greatest extent of involvement in this conflict was sending several non-combatant servicemen to aid Chinese divisions conquering Asia. With the great post-Third World War downfall of Communist governments, Mongolia also transitioned into a republic. A new constitution, adopted in January 1992 and entering into force in February, created a unicameral State Great Khural and ended the socialist republic.
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