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Decembrist Revolt
A group of noles and army officers tried to overthrow the czar's goverment.They wanted a constituional monarchy.Nicholas I demolished the threat by killing five leaders and exiling hundreds to Siberia. -
Emancipation of the serfs
Emancipation Act gave millions of Russian serfs freedom but their newly acquired land allotments were insufficient, creating a new type of slavery. It granted personal freedom, but in stages. Many serfs became tenant farmers. -
Revolution of 1905
It was when Nicholas II wanted to transform the Russian goverment from a an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. It lead to student riots and terrorist assinations. This lead to Bloody Sunday. -
Bloody Sunday
It was the massacare in St. Petersberg. Czar Nicholas II ordered the guard to gundown the unarmed protesters. The protest was organized by father Gapon. -
Russia enters WWI
Russia entered WWI with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers. -
Rusputin Murdered
To save the monarchy, several members of the aristocracy attempted to murder him. People thought of him as a "dark force". He was apeasant who claimed powers of healing and prediction. Also he slept with Tsarina Aleksandra. -
March Revoultion
It occured in Russia during WWI. t all stared when 90 000 textile workers went on strike in Russia protesting about the shortage of fuel and bread.The Tsar had banned protesting so he sent out the military to shoot the protesters. Instead the army shot their officers and joined the cause. The family was then executed. -
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates
Russia believed he lacked the qualities of a leader, and many of the people were poor and hungry and blamed him. The turmoil of the country was on Nicholas's hands. WWI was the main reason for the hardships. -
Bolshevik Revolution
It was established following the March 1917 Russian Revolution that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, was removed and replaced by the first Soviet government headed by Vladimir Lenin. It began in St. Petersburg and then spread. -
Murder of the Romanovs
The family along with fellow workers were murder in Ekaterinburg, Russia.The Romanovs did not seem to know that they were to be shot that night. The family was told to line up so that a photo could be taken that would ascertain to a suspicious public that they were, still in the hands of the Bolsheviks. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treay ened WW I.It made Germany give 33% of its land away. The German army was limited to a maximum of 100,000 men. The German navy was similarly restricted to shipping under 10,000 tons, with a ban on submarines. -
Lenin dies/USSR formed
Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54.Lenin's government nationalized industry and distributed land, and on December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established. After his death Stalin took over as his succeser. -
Stalin takes Power/Deathof Trotsky
He died early this morning from injuries received when he was attacked in his home in a suburb of Mexico City.After he died, Stalin came into power. But Lenin wrote in his will that Stalin was dangerous.
