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Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government
workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow. -
Civil war between Bolsheviks, or Reds, and anti-Bolsheviks, or Whites
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Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus
These Nations are joined together to make the beginning of the USSR -
Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin.
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United States recognises the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union and Nazi Germany conclude a non-aggression pact; Germany invades Poland, triggering World War II.
Germany has broken the non-aggression pact, Beginning the war. -
Soviet Union and US agree to scrap intermediate-range nuclear missiles
tThis event shows that the US and USSR mauy begin to get on good terms with each other -
Congress of People’s Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
this is the beginning of the end for the USSR -
Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia.
this is the end of the USSR