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splits between two main leaders was escalating
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Russian Revolution
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both groups continued to stay united under the name "RSDLP"
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Abdication of the crown.
The abdication of the crown of the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II. -
Lenin established a single-party dictatorship under the Bolsheviks
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Bolshevik Revolution declared men and women equal
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Provisional Committee of the State Duma
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Failed military offensives
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Provisional Government was consistently questioned
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Sovnarkom was established
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assault and capture of the poorly defended Winter Palace
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failed assassination attempt on Lenin's life
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Russian Constitution
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dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly
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Army offensive that drove into Polish territory
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signed Peace of Riga
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peasants revolted against the new regime
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the creation of the Soviet Union.
the creation of the Soviet Union. -
conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR,
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creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Lenin became general secretary of the party.
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Vladimir Lenin died
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Trotsky had lost his position on the Central Committee
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Stalin abandoned Lenin's economic policy
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goverment seize over 25 million privately owned farms in the USSR.
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Stalin would accept no resistance, and initiated a reign of terror
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Stalin sought to eliminate all barriers to his complete and total exercise of power.
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Stalin had forcibly transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian regime and an industrial and political power
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Stalin created the Central Purge Commission
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1,140,000 members were expelled from the party
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industrial production of steel increased more than 25 percent
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Japanese invaded China
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more than 90 percent of all peasants lived on collective farms
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Soviet leader signed a nonaggression pact with Germany
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He fled to Turkey, and eventually to Mexico was killed by a Stalinist agent.
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two allies began to pursue opposing goals
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United States and the Soviet Union embraced each other warmly because they had defeated the Nazis
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Japanese control much of nothern China
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U.S. sent the Nationalist at least $1.5billion in aid to fight the Japanese
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the war was not yet over
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Franklin D. Roosevelt died
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United States and Soviet Union set aside their differences
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Truman, Stalin and Churchill met at Potsdam, Germany
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Stalin declared communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world
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U.S. Soviet relations continued worsen
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scarcity of jobs and food
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France, Britain and the U.S. decided to withdraw their forces from Germany
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western zones became Federal Republic of Germany
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China's major cities fell to the well trained Red forces
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ten western European nations joined with the U.S. and Canada
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Soviet Union exploded its own atomic weapon
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Mao Zedong gained control of the country
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they made up 75 percent of Soviet doctors
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President Truman authorized work on a thermonuclear weapon
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Dalai Lama fled to India
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China was facing external and internal problems
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Under the Agrarian Reform Law Mao seized the holding of landlords
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Chinese and Soviets signed a treaty of friendship
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China took control of Tibet
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United States tested the first H-bomb
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the Soviets exploded their own
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Dwight D. Eisenhower became U.S. president
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Mao launched a five - year plan that set high productions goals for industry
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China's output of coal,cement,steel,and electrity had increased
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Soviets announced a rocket that could travel great distances
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U.S. launched its own satellite
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26,000 communes had been created.
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India welcomed many Tibetan refuges after a failed revolt in Tibet
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Soviets shot down a U-2 plane
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skies again provided the arena a superpower conflict
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East Germans build a wall to separate East and West Berlin
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Mao urged China's young people to''learn revolution by making revolution''
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Mao admitted that the Cultural Revolution had to stop
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Soviet Union finally broke
