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Russian Empire
The Russian empire is an empire that went from poland to the pacific ocean. the empire was very powerful and had a tyrant leader. this leader favored the rich and middle and lower class starved. -
Russian revolution
Russian citizens rose up against the russian empire. the people won and made russia switch the form of government to communism/. -
Russian civil war
The reds (communism) and the whites (capatalism) went to war where the reds won because they had the government and military on their side -
WWII
russia was part of WW2 behind Joseph Stalin and killed many people part of the baltic states and killed almost 3 times as many poeple as Hitler. -
Start of Cold War
Russia and the US were threateningeach other with nuclear weapons. t was a cold war not a hot war becasue of no gunfire, explosions, ect. while the cold war was only threats -
iron curtain was formed
Nothing was allowed in or out of the soviet union or into it that even includes exports and imports -
red scare
people were sceptical of everything and i mean everything scared that something was going to turn the US into a communist country -
Vietnam War
The us believed in the domino theory that if countries around vietnam were going communist they would too so they split i in have and went to war -
Space race
The US and the USSR were racing to get to space first and then it all ended a long time after when the US put men on the moon -
Cuban MIssile Chrisis
Cuba became a communist country and so the us sent satellites and saw missile sites and so it started to create tensions so the US put a Naval blockade around cuba. -
Fall of soviet Union
the USSR was spending too much on their military and many other factors to it then leading to it falling