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Ivan the Great, Time of troubles, Kiev rises, falls, Moscow rises
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treated as slaves
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taxes exempt, hard on serfs, C2 Charter of Nobility gave right to volunteer.
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She was smart and shrewd. No one really supported her. She took down trade barriers and tried to get waterfront territory and better goods.
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Three times: 1689-1725, 1725-1762, 1762-1796.
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discriminated against, made to live in ghettos unless converts or rich
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austrian succession
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He saved Prussia from military defeat.
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keep silesia
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vs france
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treaty of heburtusburg
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He was humorless. Centralized his authority and tried to keep his people happy. Literally refused the crown and tried to get the church under his control. He wanted better treatment of slaves.
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Pugachev Rebellion against Catherine II, which she quickly stopped.
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Leopold II and King Fredrick William II want to protect the royal family
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Britain Austria Russia Prussia against France
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The Polish were depended by Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Russia and England overcame him and partitioned Poland twice.
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Revolts start in the Austrian empire.
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Had issues deciding who was to be the ruler.
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Prussia and Russia ally, Frances gains confirmd over river.
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Restored bouborn power in France and hoped to satisfy Napolean
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Junior Moscow officers refuse to take an oath of allegiance and failed.
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Supresses Poland.
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Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationalism.
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Russia versus the Ottoman Empire, caused by Russia using protective oversight of the Orthodox Christians to try to invade the Ottomans. The Ottomans declared war.
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Russia falls to France and Britain.
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Ended the Crimean War, required Russia to surrender territory near the Danube River, recognized the neutrality of the Black Sea, and renounced its plans to protect Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire.
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No more serfs
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Resulted in the independence of or Russia/Austria dominating over most of the Ottoman European holdings.
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Anti-Foreigner group in China
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Started the Russian Revolution
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Bloody Sunday occurs.
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Establishes constituttional government.
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Russia defeated.
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Changed Russia forever.
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Publishes "Imperialism - The highest state of Capitalism" about monopolies.
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Lenin's concepts become the dogma of the Soviet Bloc for 50 years.
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Nicholas II was supposedly being controlled by his German wife. He then keft to lead the army and a provisional government was formed.
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Revolution
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yeilded territory
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Socialist movement
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Peasants could farm for profit. Instituted by Lenin.
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Five year plans ensued.
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Harvests seized in this year.
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Japan occupies Manchuria, causing the Litton Report.
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Killing of head army officials that lasted 4 years. Included many show trials.
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Power vacuum with Trotsky and Stalin ensues.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Start island-hopping.
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Two of them, fired within a week of each other, helped the Allies win the war.
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Stalin puts the western democracies as enemies.
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Kruscev denounces Stalin.
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in Afghanistan.
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Coal Miners strike.
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Against Gorbachev.