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Last of Romanvos
the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia, reigning from 1613 until the February Revolution abolished the crown in 1917, because the assination of the royal family. -
Creation of the Politburo
Is a the Communist Party's way of electing officials-
It also had its own secret police (the KGB) threatening people who stood in the way against party. -
Russian Civil War
Was a Multi party war that occured within the form of russian empire after the russian provisional government clapsed to the soviets. -
Treaty of Brest - Livoski
Peace treaty between Russia and the Central the Central Powers, Marking Russia's exit from WW1. -
Stalin's Five Year Plans
This brought all industry under state control and all industrial development was planned by the state. -
Lithuania and Latvia Protest 1928
Nearly 8,000 teachers, and police protested aginst the goverment because of their pay cuts -
World War 2
Was an important event for russia, because they won the war and became a superpower. -
Hydrogen Bomb
One of the most nuclear wepons of all time, because it employs hydrogen fusion. -
Warsaw pact
A mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. It was established at the Soviet Union's initiative and realized on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. -
Sputnik
the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
This invasion was because of the nazi annexation. -
SALT 1
The first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. -
SALT 2
The second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty increased limits on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and heavy bombers -
Soveit Afgan War
NIne year conflict, soppurting the Marxist - Leninist government of the democratic Republic of Afghaninstan. -
Glasnost
the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union -
Gorbachev becomes leader
Considered one of the most beneficial leaders in russians history. Leading to two of his infamous reforms to better the system. -
Perestroika
was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Free Elections in Poland, Czechslovakia
The spate of free competitive parliamentary elections held during the systemic 1989-91 transformation in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania introduced a new democratic political order, legitimated a new constitutional order, and founded a democratic structure for multi-party system building. -
Lithuiania declares independence
The newly elected Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR declares independence -
Boris Yeltsin
He became the presadent of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR), -
Estonia and Lativa Declare Independence
Although the symbolic right of the union republics to secede was nominally guaranteed by the constitution and the union treaty, the union authorities at first refused to recognize it. After the August coup attempt most of the other republics followed suit. The Soviet Union ultimately recognized the secession of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on September 6, 1991. -
Boris Yeltsin becomes President
The first democratically elected leader of Russia in history -
Georgia Declares independence
The Georgian Supreme Sovietdeclares independance from the USSR in April 1991 -
Gorbachev steps down
Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president; US recognizes independence of remaining Soviet republics.
