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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an Empire that expanded from Poland to the Pacific Ocean. The Empire was very powerful and had a tyrant leader.This leader favored the rich and the middle and lower class starved. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Empire fell and the poor started to speak up for their freedom. They were against the king of the Russian Empire. -
Russian Civil War
Two groups started a Civil War in Russia. Valdimir Lenin and the Reds won the Civil War. After the war Lenin gave a speech outlining that people cannot disagree with the leader or dictator. -
World War II
Hitler and his Nazis took over. He killed Jews and made camps to torture them. He made an alliance with Italy and Japan Millions of people died because of his actions. -
Start of the Cold War
The cold war happened because a rivaly after world war 2. -
Iron Curtain was Formed
They divided Europe into 2 and It was up until WW2. -
Red Scare
People started to wounder who was a commuinst. No one wanted commuinsted because they feard communisted people. -
Vietnam War
South and North Vietnam were fighting because North Vietnam was a communist country. The United States saw this and wanted to take down North Vietnam too. They didn't want the communist people to spread it everywhere. -
Space Race
The Soviet Union and US compete each other about space. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The USSR build a missile and threatened the US to launch it every where around US. -
Fall of the USSR
The Soviet Union started to disband. Everyone left because of the fall of Berlin.