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Vladimir Lenin
Russians get tired of the czars rule and kick them out and choose Lenin as their leader. -
Joseph Stalin comes to power
Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin comes in and makes Russia communist. -
Soviet famine
Famine strikes alot of the Soviet Union -
Moscow Trials
Stalin accuses and kills people he doesn't like. -
Siege of Leningrad
Germany cuts off last land ties t the city. -
World War II ends
The war ends in both the pacific and in europe with the surrneder of the axis powers. -
Berlin Airlift
This is the year it was started. It ended in 1949 after the Soviet Union gave up the blockade. -
NATO is established
An alliance between many Western Democracies -
Germany is divided
France, The United States of America, Great Britain, and The Soviet Union all split up Germany. -
Warsaw Pact is formed
The countries in the Soviet Union are forced to sign a pact -
Hungarian Revolution
The hungaries get crushed by the Red Army -
Fidel Castro comes to power
Fidel Castro turned Cuba into a communist country. -
Berlin Wall is built
THe Soviet Union built the wall so East Germans could not get to West Germany. -
Bay of Pigs
To get Fidel Castro out of power, but it failed. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union put nucleur weapons in Cuba. -
Solidarity Union forms
Poland starts to resist more forcefully. -
Berlin Wall falls
The Soviet Union starts to collapse. -
Independence
Countrys declare independence and break off of the Soviet Union
