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Russian Revolution/Civil War
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The Russo-Japanese war begins
They both fight over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
Protests shooting
The citizens start to protest in front of Czar II house, because of low wages and poor working conditions. The army ordered them to disperse but they didn't so they started shooting. -
Bolshevik Meeting
The Bolsheviks get asked to join forces with the mensheviks in London they deny them. -
Czar II abdicates the throne
Czar II gives the throne to his brother,but his brother does not want it so Russia becomes a state of the people. -
February Revolution begins
It was called the Frebuary revolution, because of their use of the julian calendar. While world war I was taking place workers and other civilians wanted their bread, but they kept getting pushed back, while all of this chaos happened. -
February Revolution cont.
The pretests start to spread and more people with jobs demand food. They start making riots, start to mob places and destroy police buildings. -
February Revolution Cont.
The troops of the petrograd start to get called in to calm the riots and they kill people in doing so, but this did not stop the protesters and the soldiers started to waver. -
February Revolution triumph
The revolution wins and soldiers formed committees to vote for deputies for the petrograd army. The imperial Government resigned and formed another govenment to peacefully stop the soldiers from attacking in the revolution. -
Lenin returns
Lenin returns with the help of the germans seeking to start a revolution. He then publishes his april thesis. -
Bolshevik Revolution
Valdimir Lenin launched an attack to overthrow the provisional government. They occupied government buildings and eventually took over and made their own government. -
Treaty of brest-litovsk
Lenin wanted to make the whole world a civil war and the central powers reacted to this and decided they should make a peace treaty. When lenin continued to attack Russia the peace treaty was made and signed -
Communist party
The Bolsheviks change their name to the comunist party to show that they are the ruling party that has no rivals. -
Czar II and his family are executed
Czar had taken his job lightly and was not good at domestic affairs and the people of his country started to resent him. Later he and his family had to move, becasue of the war. Then in siberia some drunk men came into their place and started firing killing him and his family. -
Assasination attempt at Lenin
A female assasin named Fanya Kaplan shoots at lenin hitting him two times in a speech. One in the jaw and one in the shoulder. -
The whites
The counter revolutionary army begin to make their group called the whotes to counterattack the red army. -
The red army
The red army begins to attack the white army led by Leon Trotsky in order to begin the Russian civil war. -
The Russian Civil war begins
For the next three years the white army and the red army fought a bloody and violent battle. -
France joins in he russian civil war
The French join in the civil war to help the white army. They sent troops to support them and take over the city of Odessa. -
Treaty of Versailles
It ended the world war I and the winners have to decide what to do to the losers of the war. -
Poland invades Russia
The red army and the polish kept having fights that continously escalated and poland finally declared war. The poland took over kiev and the Bolsheviks countered and drove them back. Then ending with the russians wanting peace. -
The red army wins
After countless battles the red army finally wins against the white army. -
New Economic Policy
Lenin sees that russia is falling due to their economy and makes a new economic policy. Nep was used as a private trade were people traded their food and resources for money. -
U.S.S.R.
The USSR is created, because Russia seeks more power. This was a new centralized government Russia now relies on. -
Treaty of Rapallo
The treaty of repallo allowed russia and Germany to trade. Russia received industrial manufacturing technology from the germans. Germany received training and weapons from russia. They both benefited greatly from this since they were both outcast to the other nations. -
Lenin dies
After getting shot two times his health started to detoriate. He had three strokes, but kept working leading up to his death.
