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The Russian Emprie was an empire that spread from Poland to the Pacific Ocean. It was very powerful and to go along with that it had powerful leaders. -
The Russian Revolution took place during WWI. This is when Russia decided to abolish its Monarchy to turn into a more socialist kind of government. It was a time in history where people were rebelling against the food supply and such and would really set of Russia's rich history. -
This is a point in history where no one trusted anyone. People thought that other people, even their closest friends could be communists. They thought this because the Soviet Union had sent spies into the US to find out about its government. So when the people found this out, they were quite shooken. The US was so afraid of becoming a communist country, that it started acting like a communist country. -
The Red and Whites started a Civil War in Russia. The Reds ended up winning the war. After that incident Lenin made a speech saying that you had to do whatever the dictator said, giving him full control. Then Lenin ended up getting assasinated and Stalin took over. -
Probably the worst war in history, WWII was a scary point in history. Hitler was in control of Germany at this point of history. He attacked innocent people for evil reasons like they were gay, or a jew. Russia was on our team during this part helping to stop Hitler from doing this. Stalin was the main leader here. He had spys in America which is how he found out about the Atom Bomb. -
The Iron Curtain was basically the invisible boundary that split Europe apart politically for 46 years after WWII. It was basically to separate Russia from noncommunist countries. It also helped the USSR to isolate the world of Russian Knowledge. -
The Space Race started when the USSR put their first satellite, Sputnik 1 into Space. This scared Americans because they thought if the Soviets could shoot their missiles as far as Space they could easily shoot their missiles at America. So it was a long ongoing battle of bravery. -
The Vietnam War started because North Vietnam was a communist country trying to take over South Vietnam. They thought if the North took over the South then all of Asia would become communist too. They thought it would be a quick war and spoiler alert.(It wasn't) A lot of horrible things happened and it all ended up being for nothing because no one won the war. -
Russia decided to try to threaten America by putting bombs in Cuba. Not just any bombs though, missiles. This was a critical point in history. It was scary and JFK had to make an important decision very fast in order for it to end. He decided to baracade ships around Cuba until they took them down. -
The Soviet Union fell around the time the Cold War ended. This happened for a number of reasons. One was the fact that it had a new leader. Another reason perhaps is the fact that having a communist country isn't the best idea. It just didn't work out for Russia.