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Treaty of brest-livosk
Russia gives land to Germany as a part of a peace treaty to end the world. Lenin can now focus on his own people. -
The Russian Civil War.
The Communist party emerges victorious helping Russia transform into the USSR. -
World war 2
) stalin in control of the soviet union entered a non aggression pact with nazi germany which was broken making Russia invading countries that germany wanted to possess -
Joe-1
a code name for russia’s first atomic bomb -
Soviet Hydrogen bomb
projects to produce russia's first hydrogen bomb -
Creation of the polibituro:
creation of the communist party. -
Warsaw Pact
a treaty in 1955 to have piece between the nations in Europe to prevent another world war. -
Laika and sputnik 3
Laika was a dog that became the first animal to orbit the earth, also dying in the process. -
Sputnik
Fist Sattilight to enter space -
Creation of the berlin wall
Berlin wall was the physical division between west berlin and east germany and was finished in august 13th 1961 this wall symbolized the separation between democracy to the west and communism in the east. -
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovoakia
Russia invades chzechoslovoakia because they tried to go agenst the warsaw pact. -
salt 1
Strategic arms limitation talks, was a treaty between the soviets and America to slow down the production of nuclear weapons -
salt 2
This was to dismantle the ones already made -
Glasnost
a policy that increased openness and transparency in the government. -
Chernobyl disaster
was a major nuclear accident that spewed radiation all over the USSR and parts of western Europe, The clean up was so immense that it crippled the soviet economy -
Voting reforms by gorbachev
this is allowing people to vote for someone that’s not in the communist party. This contributes to the fall of the soviet union. -
Perestroika
a political movement in the communist party during the 1980’s