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200,000 workers led by Father Gapon went to Winter Palace to petition and was shot at by Tsar's troops
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Strikes start all over the country to try to get a Duma and more freedom
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Tsar creates a duma but it was powerless and didn't do its job
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hundreds of striking miners were massacred at the Lena goldfields
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Russia Enters World War 1
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Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returns to Russia and brings back the Bolshevik Party
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There is a political crisis and the Bolshevik Party starts a riot and even though they are defeated it showed that they had a lot of support and they would soon be in power. Lenin escaped to Finland after being shot.
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Lenin returns to Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution begins
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Bolsheviks takes Petrograd
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The Bolsheviks control Russia
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World War 1 Ends
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New Economic Policy if formed in Russia and lasted 10 years
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Culture Revolution begins
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Cold War begins
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The United States use the first Atomic Bomb on Japan
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made between 12 nations including United States to prevent the spread of the communist
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Soviets explode first atomic bomb
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KGB Established
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Pact made by 8 country to counter the NATO
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis