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Creation of the Politburo
Policymaking committee of the Communist party/during Russian Rev. -
Treaty of Brest-Livosk
Treaty of Brest-Livosk: Brought about end of the war between Russia and Germany. Lenin ordered Bolshevik to get treaty to end war so that they can focus on just Russia. -
Last of the Romanovs
Romanov family executed to end their ruling. Communism is the new form of government. -
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Stalin's Five Year Plan
Industry and industrial development under state control. Factories had to meet unrealistic targets. They never did but they made many improvements. -
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Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War: Fought between the White and Red Armies. It brought about the end of the Czars and Communism became the new form of government. -
Joe 1
First Lightning/”Joe-1”: First soviet atomic bomb test and first nuclear weapon. Gave soviets a sense of power. -
Hydrogen Bomb
August 12, 1953. Succeeds in Hydrogen bomb. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact. It was an alliance of the Eastern Bloc countries, established in 1955 by the Soviet Union as a counterpart to NATO. -
Sputnik
Successfully launch Sputnik. First artificial satellite. -
Laika and Sputnik II
First dog in space. Laika died. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet troops march into Czechoslovakia with troops from four other Warsaw Pact countries. Claim to have been invited. -
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SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt 1). During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. -
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SALT II
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks -
Gorbachev becomes leader
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Perestroika
Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring. -
Chernobyl Disaster
Reactor number four exploded in the Chernobyl factory. The largest civil nuclear disaster in history. It led to evacuations, long-term health, agricultural, and economic distress. -
Glasnot
A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information -
Voting Reforms by Gorbachev
Gorbachev creates voting reforms that allowed Soviet citizens to vote for those outside the Communist party. The Soviets suffered minimal loss in the elections.
