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Serfs Freedom
Agriculture and armies are weaker than of others. Alexander II sees this so he atstablishes the Emancipation Manifesto, claiming that all serfs can be citizens and have the same benefits. -
The Zemstvo is astablished
Zemstvo is a self-governed government made to help after the Emancipation Manifesto results. It built public buildings and helped serfs (who were now citizens). -
Alexander III rises to power
Alexander II is assassinated, so Alexander III (Alexander II's son) assumes his place with the belief that there should be only one race. -
Nicholas II rises to power
Nicholas II inherrits the Russian thrown after 49 year old father Alexander III dies of kidney disease. Nicholas II will be the last tsar of Russia. -
The Russo-Japanese War
Japan wins against Russia and forces them to give up land, That land was expansionist colony in the Far East. This became known as the first Asian power win against European pwoer in modern times. -
The Revolution of 1905
150,000 went out into the streets of St. Petersburg to protest about their lives. They wanted Nicholas II to help them by giving them justice and protection. The soldiers on duty that night started to shoot at the peaceful protesters and killed several hundred. This became knwon as 'Bloody Sunday" -
World War I
Russia joins in on World War I. Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. -
The Duma
As Czar tries to get back home to Petrograd. The Duma, who turned on Nicholas, prevented him from getting on the train. The Duma elected their own provisional committee (The Duma are council assemblies). -
Russias new power
The Bolsheviks were put to power, and Lenin promised the end of the war was soon to come. -
'Peace, land,and bread"
Lenin Promises 'Peace, land, and Bread" Peace meaning the end of the war. Land meaning abolition of private protery, and the land to be redistributed to the poor and the farmers. Bread meaning to end widespread food shortages. -
November coup d'etat
Led by Valdimir Lenin, revolutionaries have a "nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government."
Two days later, a new government was made with Lenin as the leader. Russia was later renamed as Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The first Marxist state in the world. -
The Russian Orthodox Church
The freedom of of religious and anti-religious propaganda was passed and cause the Russian Orthodox Church to lose power. -
The terms of the Versailles Treaty
"(1) the surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates;(2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;(3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,(4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland;(5) Danzig to become a free city;(6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;(7) occupation and special status for the Saar under French control; (8) demilitarizatio -
The terms of the Versailles Treaty
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and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;(9) German reparations of £6,600 million;(10) a ban on the union of Germany and Austria;(11) an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war;(11) provision for the trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders;(12) limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships;(13) the limitation of the German Navy to vessels under 100,000 tons" -
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
A treaty wassigned between Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers stating that USSR would no longer be participating in World War I. -
Czar and His Family Are Killed
Nicholas Czar II and his family was murder by order of Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Ending more than three centuries of the Romanov dynasty’s rule.
