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Jan 1, 1462
1st Czar
- Ivan (III) the Great
- Rulled from 1462 to 1505
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Russian Revolution
The 1905 Russian Revolution is a historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906. -
Soviet Union Created
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary leader, political ideologist, and the creator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). -
Stalin
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After moving up the ranks and becoming party leader and head of state in the Soviet Union, he established a government based on the principles of Leninism, and began building Socialism in one country. -
World War II
During World War II%u2014known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War%u2014the USSR%u2019s struggle against the Nazis allowed Stalin to encourage a sense of nationalism and build loyalty to the Soviet state: once again Russia had been attacked, and once again it had emerged victorious against a Western power. (1941-1945) -
Cold War Begins
The Cold War was the state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Throughout this period, rivalry between the two superpowers was expressed through military coalitions, propaganda, espionage, weapons development, industrial advances, and competitive technological development, which included the space race. Both superpowers engaged in costly defence spending, a massive conv -
Berlin Airlift
On June 24, the Soviet Union makes a bid for control of Berlin by blockading all land access to the city. From June 1948 to May 1949, U.S. and British planes airlift 1.5 million tons of supplies to the residents of West Berlin. After 200,000 flights, the Soviet Union lifts the blockade. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the spacecraft that went into earth's orbit, the first one in human history, and was an enormously significant event for that reason. The launching of Sputnik 1 and 2 as well as other USSR launches initiated the Space Race between the US and the USSR, which was a constant back and forth "battle" to make accomplishments in space between these two regions. When Kennedy took over for the US, we launched sooner than planned, and by the end of it, "won" this race. -
U-2 Affair
On May 1, an American high-altitude U-2 spy plane is shot down on a mission over the Soviet Union. After the Soviets announce the capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers, the United States recants earlier assertions that the plane was on a weather research mission. -
Berlin Wall
The United States rejects proposals by Khrushchev to make Berlin a "free city" with access controlled by East Germany. On August 15, communist authorities begin construction on the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin.
