Chronological Quiz #2

Russian Civil War

1917-1923(?)

Soviet treaty that adds Ukranian “independence“

March 2, 1918

Kornilov is killed (Rebellion in Southern Russia)

April 1918

Execution of Nicholas II and his Family

July 1918

War Communism (mobilizing men for the civil war)

1918-1921

Allied Interventions

(1918-1921)

Civil War in Ukraine

1917-1921

Polish Soviet War

1919-1920

Kronstadt Uprising

March 1921)

Soviet Union Established

December 1922

New Economic Policy (NEP)

1921-1928

Founding of the Komsomol (Young Communist League)

1918

Hujum (mass unveiling policy in Uzbekistan, met with mass resistance)

1920s

Lenin’s strokes

1922, 1923 (lost ability to speak)

Death of Lenin

1924

Politburo formed

1917

Stalingrad named

1925

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration

1929

Shakty Trials (Foreign specialists and Russian engineers arrested for wrecking Soviet economy)

1928

First Five-Year Plan (5 year plan in four years)

Introduced in October 1928 | “completed” in 1932

Collectivization of agriculture

1928-1940

1928 grain crisis

1928

The “25,000-ers” (volunteers from cities went to countryside, met with violent resistance)

1929

Pavlik Morozov Incident

1932

Famine of 1932-33

1932-1933

Holodomor in Ukraine (Man-made famine)

1932-1933

Asharshiliq in Kazakhstan (Man-made Famine)

1930-1933

Gulag Uprisings in Kazakhstan (largest Kengir Uprising in Kazakhstan)

1954

Sergei Kirov’s Assasination

1934

First Moscow Show Trial

1936

Original Soviet constitution

1936

1936 Soviet Constitution (remained until 1977)

1936

Spanish Civil War (pro-Soviet vs pro Nazi forces)

1936-1938

Stalin’s Great Terror

1936-1938

Final Moscow Show Trial

1938

Stalin vs Hitler

1933-1939

Invasion of Poland

1939

Soviets invade and occupy Eastern Poland (

1939 (US acknowledged massacre in 1990)

Soviets annex Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

1940

Smolensk Air disaster

2010

Winter War against Finland

December 1939

Operation Barbarosa

June 22, 1941, 3:30 AM

200K Crimean Tatars  deported to Siberia and Central Asia

May 18-20, 1944

500,000 Chechens and Ingush deported

February 23, 1944

Battle of Moscow

October 1941 - January 1942

Siege of Leningrad

September 1941 - January 27 1944

SADUM - Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan

1943

Operation Uranus

1942

Largest tank battle in history at Kursk (Hitler’s final offensive)

1943

Kiev is liberated

1943

Leningrad Liberated

1944

Battle of Berlin

1945

Tehran Conference

1943

Postdam Conference

1945

First successful Soviet atomic bomb detonation (at Semipalatinsk)

1949

“Rootless Cosmopolitanism” (originally targeted against pro-west, but turned into anti-Semitism)

1948

Doctors’ Plot (9 Kremlin physicians, mostly Jewish, arrested and accused of murdering Zhdanov and trying to overthrow the regime)

December 1952

Death of Stalin

March 5, 1953

Beria’s death

1953

Gulag Closings (2/3 of camps closed)

1953

Hungary Uprising

1956

Mass housing

1957

“Virgin Lands” Campaign (increasing farming in Kazakhstan)

1953)

Anti religious campaigns

1958-1964

world’s first satellite (Sputnik)  launched into orbit by USSR

1957

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space;

1961

Valentina Tereshkova became first woman in space

1963

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Coup plotters remove Khrushchev from power while he is on vacation

1964

Kosygin Reforms

1965

Prague Spring

1968

Nixon visits Moscow and signs SALT 1

1972

Helsinki Accords

1975

War in Afghanistan

1978

Brezhnev’s death

November 1982

Reagan’s “evil empire” speech and Communist Revolution in Grenada

1983

Korean Air Flight KAL-007

1983

Dry Laws (raised the price of alcohol and limited sales and time of purchase

1985-1987

Chernobyl Disaster

April 26, 1986

Soviet television broadcast Easter Mass for the first time

1987

Sumgait riots

1988

Jeltoqsan (events in Almaty, Kazakhstan)

December 1986

Fergana Massacre of Meskhetian Turks

May-June 1989

Osh Riots

June 1990

Dushanbe Riots

February 1990

Soviet Union becomes a school for democracy

March 1989

Estonian Republic effectively declared sovereignty

1988

Lithuania declared independence from USSR

1990

Fall of Berlin Wall

November 9, 1989

Fall of Soviet Union

December 26, 1991

Yeltsin was elected chairman of the Russian Republic’s Supreme Soviet

May 1990

Yeltsin founded Democratic Russia Bloc and resigned from Party

July 1990

August 1991 Coup (overthrowing Gorbachev)

August 1991

Gorbachev Resigns

August 24, 1991

Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR formally ratified the new accord and denounced the 1922 Union Treaty

December 12, 1991

heads of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine met in secret to proclaim the end of the USSR

December 8, 1991

Kazakhstan became the last Soviet republic to announce its independence from the USSR

December 16, 1991

Privatization

1992

Constitutional Crisis

1993

War in Chechnya (Chechnya declared independence from Soviet Union/Russia in 1991)

1994-1996