The collapse of the soviet

union

Russian civil war 1917-1922

Civil war between the Bolsheviks(red) and the antiBolsheviks(whites). The whites represented all the anti- communist
groups. In the end the red army won leading to the creation of the
U.S.S.R.

Creation of the politburo 1917

the Bolshevik Party created this in 1917 to provide strong and

continuous leadership during the Russian Revolution occurring the
same year.

Stalins five year plans 1928

were a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the soviet
union. This would help to develop the economy and to increase the output
of steel, coal, and electricity. This really limited businesses and showed
how communism controlled the country.

World war II 1935-1945

It was a global war including all the great power which eventually formed
two separate sides. The allies and axis were the two sides. It was the most
widespread war in history. It involved more then 100 million people from
over 30 countries. It resulted in a estimated 50 to 85 million deaths.

Joe 1 1949

The united states assigned the name Joe 1 the Russian project for
there first nuclear weapon test. The unites states name it Joe 1 for
Joseph Stalin. It was exploded August 29,1949 at 7 in the morning
after a top secret R&d project. After the United states found out
about the testing and spread the word to the rest of the world. This
hurt Russia because there test is not secret no more.

Hydrogen bomb 1952

It weights a little more then 2,400 pounds. When it was detonated it

released the same amount of energy as 20,000 tons of TnT. Only two
nuclear bombs have been set off over the course of history and both
were released by the united states. This is what Russia and the united
states had pointing at eachother during the cold war.

Warsaw pact 1955

The Warsaw Pact was in part a Soviet military reaction to the
integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the Paris Pacts of
1954, but was primarily motivated by Soviet desires to maintain
control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.

Laika 1957
was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space,
and the first animal to orbit the Earth. This made Russia look good
because they were the first country to bring animal into space.

Sputnik 3 1957
was a Soviet satellite launched on May 15, 1957. It was a research
satellite to explore the upper atmosphere and the near space and
carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research. Sputnik
3 was the only Soviet satellite launched in 1957.

Creation of the Berlin wall 1961

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that existed from 1961 through 1989,
constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West
Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it
was opened in 1989.

Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968

Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia
to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet
Unions action successfully halted the pace of reform in
Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the
communist bloc.

Salt I 1972
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). SALT I froze the number of
strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the
addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers only after
the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile and SLBM
launchers had been dismantled.

Salt II 1979
The second round of the salt I. basically the same thing just a second
time. It was bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties
involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War
superpowers

Soviet-Afghan war 1979-1989

it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national
insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two
alliances the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. It was part of
the cold war so Russia had to worry about Afghan and the united
states.

Gorbachev becomes leader 1985

He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served
as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from
1985 until 1991, and as the country's head of state from 1988 until its
dissolution in 1991.

Chernobyl disaster 1986

a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct
jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and
fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere,
which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.

Perestroika 1986
was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union during the 1980s (1986), widely associated with
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Lithuania and Latvia protests 1988

Tens of thousands of Lithuanians and Latvians formed human chains
along the Baltic seacoast Saturday in anti-pollution protests
demonstrating newly awakened environmental awareness in the
Soviet Union.

Fall of the Berlin wall 1989

as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman
for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's
relations with the West.

Gorbachev steps down 1991

Gorbachev announces that he is resigning as president of the Soviet Union.
In truth, there was not much of a Soviet Union from which to resignjust
four days earlier, 11 of the former Soviet republics had established the
Commonwealth of Independent States , effectively dismembering the
USSR.