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KART MARX'S COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

  • February 1848
  • The Communist Manifesto (officially Manifesto of the Communist Party)
  • Political manifesto by german philosophers Karl Marx's and
  • Friedrich Engels that laid out the program of the Communist league.
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FREEING THE SERFS

  • 1861
  • It was the most important of liberal forms effected
  • During the region (1855- 1881) of Emperor
  • Alexander II of Russia
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RUSSIA JOINED WWI

  • August 1914
  • Russia entered World War I, after promising support to its Balkan ally Serbia against Austria-Hungary
  • The war doused anti-government sentiment which had peaked with a general strike in St Petersburg
  • Russia’s first military forays were disastrous: its soldiers were poorly equipped, its officers barely competent
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NICHOLAS II ABDICATED THE THRONE

  • 1917
  • During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894
  • Is forced to abdicate the throne but the petroleum insurgents and a provincial
  • Government is installed in his place.
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STALIN TAKES OVER USSR

  • November 1917
  • Under stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant into
  • An industrial military powers. However, he ruled by terror, and millions
  • Of his own citizens died during his brutal reigns.
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WWII

  • 1939- 1957
  • Adolf Hitler, after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923
  • eventually became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. He abolished democracy, espousing
  • a radical, racially motivated revision of the world order, and soon began a massive rearmament campaign
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COLD WAR

  • 1947-1991
  • The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between
  • powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and
  • powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).
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ESTABLISHED A COMMITTEE STATE

  • 1949
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WARSAW PACT

  • 1955
  • defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence
  • During the Cold War
Photo by x-ray delta one
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SPUTNIK LAUNCHED

  • 1957
  • Sputnik1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58cm in diameter
  • Polished metal sphere , with for extremal radio antennas to broadcast
  • Radio pulse. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical orbit.
Photo by NASA APPEL
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  • 1985
12.

COUP OF USSR

  • August 1991
  • Its two decades since the USSR broke up. ... Twenty years on from
  • the Soviet coup that ultimately ended Mikhail Gorbachev's political career ...
Photo by Jorge Lascar
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USSR ENDED

  • December 1991
  • The dissolution of the Soviet Union also signaled the end of the Cold War.

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