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Rise and Fall of Soviet Union
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Creation of the Politburo
Communist party's way of electing officials -
Last of the Romanovs
The last of the Romanovs were executed and killed and there would never be another Czar leader. -
Russian Civil War
The war between the white and the red armies. The war lasts until 1923 -
Treaty of Brest-Livosk
This treaty would end the Russian Civil War. -
Stalin's Five Year Plans
Stalin would issue his five year plan to improve Russia and industrialize it quickly to catch up with the west -
World War 2
Russia goes to war with Germany and the Japanese fighting along side the U.S and Great Britain -
Joe 1
The Soviets would create an atomic bomb similar to the ones the U.S. made -
Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviets design a better and more deadly bomb. The hydrogen-fusion bomb. -
Warsaw Pact
A military treaty that stated if you signed that you would go and aid others in war -
Sputnik
The first satellite was put into Earth's orbit by the Soviets -
Laika and Sputnik 3
Laika would be the first dog to go into space. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created cutting off communication between the East and the West -
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia with the aid of others who signed the Warsaw Pact -
SALT 1
The U.S. and the Soviet Union come together to make an agreement on the cap of their weapons stock of nuclear weapons. The negotiations would last until May 26, 1972 and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty would be created from SALT 1 -
SALT 2
The Soviets and the U.S. would come together again to discuss the weapons, and they would come to an agreement in 1979. But the U.S. would withdrawl from SALT 2 in 1986 -
Soviet-Afghan War
Russia would invade Afghanistan to spread communism but they would lose this war. -
Voting Reforms by Gorbachev
Gorbachev lets people vote for who they want to be in the communist party -
Gorbachev Becomes Leader
Gorbachev becomes the Communist Party General Secretary. -
Perestrokia
Gorbachev's program of political, economic, and social reconstruction -
Glasnost
Word Gorbachev brought into the Russian vocabulary. It means openness -
Cherynobyl Disaster
A bad design by the Soviet's for a nuclear power plant cause a disaster in Cherynobyl -
Lithuania and Latvia Protests
Two million people joined hands and protested against illegal Soviet occupation -
The Fall of Berlin Wall
The separation of the East and the West was over and people could travel to ether side -
Gorbachev steps down
Gorbachev steps down as president of the USSR -
Boris Yeltsin becomes President
Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia -
Free Elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary all become democratic nations and hold free elections