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Bolshevik Revolution
Communist Party seized power in Russian government -
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Russian Civil War
The Whites vs the Red Army (Bolsheviks); the Whites were assisted by Britain, France, Japan and the U.S. in order to prevent the spread of Bolshevism; intervention fueled Soviet suspicions of Western powers -
Establishment of Comintern
Communist organization set up in Moscow to coordinate the efforts of communists around the world to achieve a worldwide revolution -
Polish-Russian War
Poland invaded Ukraine, Bolshevik forces pushed the Poles back to Warsaw, but French-supported Poland defeated the Red Army and claimed territory; signed Treaty of Riga with Poland and lost territory in Ukraine and Belorussia -
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Anglo-French negotiations with the USSR
British and French started negotiations with Stalin for a defensive alliance against Germany; increased suspicions -
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
Committed both powers to neutrality and secretly outlined spheres of interest in eastern Europe -
Annexation of eastern Europe
Stalin responded to the defeat of France and the subsequent threat of German domination by annexing the Baltic states, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina -
Dissolved Comintern
Stalin did this to convinence his allies that the USSR no longer supported global revolution -
Soviet invasion of Poland
Soviet Union annexed territory by crossing the Curzon Line and destroying the Polish Home Army and formed a pro-Soviet puppet government -
Yalta Conference
USSR, US and Britain met as a group, finalized plans for post-war Allied occupation of Germany with France to create the Four-Power Control, established the United Nations, and planed to finish the war in Europe and eastern Asia