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picture from The Mongols invaded (1200-1400) but they didn’t conquer Moscow.
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picture from Czar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) (1547-1613) murdered anyone who opposed him. Russian nobility supported him in exchange for land and people.
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picture from Michael Romanov becomes czar.
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picture from Peter the Great (1689-1725) toured Europe and brought back some modernization, gave freedoms to the lower class, moved capitol from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
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picture form Napoleon invades with 600,000 men, and retreats with less than 10,000.
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picture from Czar Alexander II built railroads, set up a modernized banking system, freed the serfs, increased freedom of the press, established a form of a jury.
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picture from U.S. bought Alaska for $7.2 million.
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picture from Czar Nicholas II reluctantly takes over the throne after his father was murdered.
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picture from Trans-Siberian railroad was completed at 4,500 miles long.
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picture from Bloody Sunday was a massive riot against czars.
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picture from Czar Nicholas II decides that he must give up the throne.
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picture from Lenin becomes ruler of Russia makes Russia socialist.
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picture from The Romanov family is murdered.
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picture from USSR (Union of Social Socialist Republics) is established and led by Lenin for 2 years.
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picture from Stalin becomes sole dictator and had the communist party, KGB, the soviet army, impossible quotas, and collective farms. He made it so that there was no religion, no traditions, and no language except for Russian.
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picture from Cold war was a 40 year war between the USSR and the USA.
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picture from A Space Race began between the USSR and the USA to put satellites in space and a man on the moon.
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picture from The USSR had to borrow food the USA to feed their nation.
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picture from The Cold War finally ends and the Berlin wall was broken down.
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picture from (2000-2008) Vladimer Putin is president.
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picture from Vikings from Sweden crossed the Baltic Sea and settled west of the Ural mountains and set up small farming communities.
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