Russia/Soviet Union

By joshuabowyer
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    World War I

  • Grigori Rasputin is assassinated in Russia

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    Start of russian Civil war march 8, 1917, Vladimer Lenin starts a revolution

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    Polish Soviet war starts, First red scare in America

  • USSR forms in russia

  • joseph stalin rises to power

  • First Russian gulag opens

  • The great purge ends after nearly 700,000 executions

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    World War II

  • Battle of Stalingrad fails

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    Cold War

  • soviet union creates atomic bombs

  • Death a Joseph Stalin

  • Soviets first to generate nuclear power

  • Warsaw pact signed

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    Vietnam war

  • Sputnik launch

  • End of most Russian gulags

  • U-2 incedent causes tensions

  • Rise of the Berlin wall

  • Cuban missle crisis starts and ends

  • Leonid Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev and assumes power in the Soviet Union

  • Leonid Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev and assumes power in the Soviet Union

  • Ratification of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

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    Soviet Afghanistan war

  • Independence of the former 15 soviet states

  • Dissolution of the soviet union