Important Facts:
Currency-Ruble
Languege-Russian
Goverment-Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Total Land Area- 6,529,800 square miles
Population (2010)- 141,927,297
Capital-Moscow
Timeline: Major Points:
COLD WAR
PUTIN
STALIN+LENIN
CURRENT
REVOLTUION
COMMUNISM VS. DEMOCARCY + FREE MARKET
CHINA+KOREA
BALTIC STATES
CHECHNYA
Side points:
KGB
SOCIETY (FOOD, CULTURE, ART, CONSUMER GOODS)
1921-Lenin changes economy to slightly more free economy.
1922-Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia (Belarus), Transcaucasia (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) makes up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics U.S.S.R….
1924-Lenin dies.
1924-Stalin comes to power and starts the 5 year plan which means the economy is focused on heavy industry and not consumer goods.
1928-Stalin is now a dictator.
1934-Stalin starts his purges killing millions.
1937-Stalin purges the army killing ½ his officers which will have an irreplaceable effect on WWII.
1939-Russia invades Poland and Finland.
1939-August 3 Hitler and Stalin sign the non aggression pact.
1940-Russia annexes Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
1941-Germany invades Russia.
1943-Russia wins Stalingrad and Russia.
1945-Berlin is captured WWII ends.
1945-Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, and the cold war starts.
1953-Stalin dies.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev become first secretary of the Communist party.
1957-Russia launches first satellite.
1961-Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
1962-Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev takes missiles back from Cuba.
1964-Leonid Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist party and disposes of Khrushchev.
1969-Border clashes with China.
1970-Consumer goods more available.
1972-Nixon signs peace agreements.
1978-1982 Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
1985- General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev works to fix economy.
1986-Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
1987- Gorbachev allows more free speech.
1991-Boris Yeltsin first Russian president and Leningrad renamed St. Petersburg.
1991-KGB replaced by SVR.
1991-U.S.S.R. breaks up even with a Communist coup.
1992-Yeltsin ends Communist dominance privatizes, the economy, and allows free press.
1993-Nuclear accident at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
1994-Province of Chechnya breaks away and Russia sends troops in.
1994-Clinton and Yeltsin agree not to aim nuclear missiles at each other.
1994-Russia and People Republic of China stop aiming missiles at each other.
1995-200 Russian missiles components found in Tigris River.
1996-Russia gets a 10.2 Billion loan to help their economy.
1996- First Chechnya war Yeltsin starts a cease fire.
1998-Stock market collapses new Rubbles issued.
1998-Galina Starovoitova who advocated democracy is assassinated.
1999- Chechen rebels invade province of Dagestan.
1999-2000- 2nd Chechnya war.
2000 Putin elected president
Russia
U.S.S.R. (December 10 1922-December 25 1991)
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Provinces of current day Russia
The Kremlin
Important Facts:
Currency-Ruble
Languege-Russian
Goverment-Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Total Land Area- 6,529,800 square miles
Population (2010)- 141,927,297
Capital-Moscow
Timeline:
Major Points:
COLD WAR
PUTIN
STALIN+LENIN
CURRENT
REVOLTUION
COMMUNISM VS. DEMOCARCY + FREE MARKET
CHINA+KOREA
BALTIC STATES
CHECHNYA
Side points:
KGB
SOCIETY (FOOD, CULTURE, ART, CONSUMER GOODS)
1921-Lenin changes economy to slightly more free economy.
1922-Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia (Belarus), Transcaucasia (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) makes up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics U.S.S.R….
1924-Lenin dies.
1924-Stalin comes to power and starts the 5 year plan which means the economy is focused on heavy industry and not consumer goods.
1928-Stalin is now a dictator.
1934-Stalin starts his purges killing millions.
1937-Stalin purges the army killing ½ his officers which will have an irreplaceable effect on WWII.
1939-Russia invades Poland and Finland.
1939-August 3 Hitler and Stalin sign the non aggression pact.
1940-Russia annexes Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
1941-Germany invades Russia.
1943-Russia wins Stalingrad and Russia.
1945-Berlin is captured WWII ends.
1945-Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, and the cold war starts.
1953-Stalin dies.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev become first secretary of the Communist party.
1957-Russia launches first satellite.
1961-Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
1962-Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev takes missiles back from Cuba.
1964-Leonid Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist party and disposes of Khrushchev.
1969-Border clashes with China.
1970-Consumer goods more available.
1972-Nixon signs peace agreements.
1978-1982 Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
1985- General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev works to fix economy.
1986-Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
1987- Gorbachev allows more free speech.
1991-Boris Yeltsin first Russian president and Leningrad renamed St. Petersburg.
1991-KGB replaced by SVR.
1991-U.S.S.R. breaks up even with a Communist coup.
1992-Yeltsin ends Communist dominance privatizes, the economy, and allows free press.
1993-Nuclear accident at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
1994-Province of Chechnya breaks away and Russia sends troops in.
1994-Clinton and Yeltsin agree not to aim nuclear missiles at each other.
1994-Russia and People Republic of China stop aiming missiles at each other.
1995-200 Russian missiles components found in Tigris River.
1996-Russia gets a 10.2 Billion loan to help their economy.
1996- First Chechnya war Yeltsin starts a cease fire.
1998-Stock market collapses new Rubbles issued.
1998-Galina Starovoitova who advocated democracy is assassinated.
1999- Chechen rebels invade province of Dagestan.
1999-2000- 2nd Chechnya war.
2000 Putin elected president