Russia - USSR

By AKWeighall

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Russian Revolution of 1905 (Fiddler on the Roof)

  • Russia enters WW1

  • February Revolution-Russian Revolution of 1917

  • Bolshevik Revolution-October Revolution

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Lenin takes Russia out of WW1

  • Romanoffs executed by Bolsheviks

  • WW1 ends

  • End of Civil war, establishment of Soviet Union

  • Lenin dies - Stalin comes to power

  • Stalin's first 5-year plan

  • Stalin calls for liquidation of the kulaks

  • Period: to

    The Great Purge

  • Stalin and Hitler make non-aggression pact

  • Hitler Invades the Soviet Union

  • Yalta conference

  • Stalin captures Berlin

  • Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • China falls to Mao and communists

  • Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • Joseph Stalin dies