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Soviet Union Timeline

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    Russian Empire

    Russian Empire
    The Russian Empire was an Empire that was ruled by a tyrant. The rich were favored over the poor,and the poor were forced to starve. Russia expanded from the Pacific Ocean to Poland.
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    Russian citizens rose up against the leader of the Russian Empire. The citizens of Russia Won. The new form of Government was communism and the dictator made all decisions .
  • Russian Civil war

    Russian Civil war
    Two groups the Reds and whites started a civil war in Russia. Vladimir Lenin and the reds won the Civil War. After the war,Lenin gave a speech outlining that people cannot disagree with the leader and the dictator has complete control.Lenin was assassinated by a White group member, and Joseph Stalin took over.
  • World War II

    World War II
    There was 2 sides fighting aginst each other which made a war. They were fighting with each other for a few years which brought in a lot of countries.
  • Start of cold war

    Start of cold war
    The cold war had many attacks across places. They were very "cold" time and very bad.
  • Iron curtain was formed

    Iron curtain was formed
    Dividing areas in WWII until the end of the cold war.
  • Red scare

    Red scare
    It could be anyone. This is were all through cold war and it was a fear of communist.
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war
    The vietnam war was with US too. Everyone thought The vietnams would lose but they fought in the jungle and the US didn't think that it would be in there. So US didn't have the right tools are people that were trained in this.
  • Space race

    Space race
    The Space race is where the USSR and the USA. was going aginst each other to get to the moon and win the race they were playing.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    This was about the worst period in U.S. There was a Missile Crisis pointed to Cuba but then changed to us. They made agrement and no missiles were shot.
  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    The Fall of the Soviet Union was where a bunch of the little countries that all came together and was all communist had broken apart and became their own. Now that there was no one to be communist they all gave up and it disarpered