What is the official name of Belarus?
Republic of Belarus
Formerly known as?
Byelorussia
What else?
Belorussia
Does is border an ocean?
No
What is to its northeast?
Russia
South?
Ukraine
West?
Poland
What is the capital?
Minsk
When did they declare independence?
1917
After what?
Russian Revolution
Who conquered it?
Soviet Russia
Who did they loose a lot of land to?
Poland
After what?
Polish–Soviet War
When was that?
1919–1921
When did most of the borders get set?
1939
What happened during WWII?
military operations devastated Belarus
How much of the population was killed?
a third
How much of their economic resources did they lose?
more than half
What happened in 1945?
Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations
With who?
the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR.