Unit 3 and 4 Modern History ATAR

Russia and the Cold War - early Russian empire dates Julian, until 1918

Germany Declares War on Russia

1914

Tsar Nicholas II appoints himself as commander-in-chief f the military

1915

Sturmer is appointed Prime Minister by Rasputin

February 1917

The February revolution

23-28 February 1917

Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

2 March 1917

Lenin returns and delivers his April Theses

3 April 1917, 17 April 1917

Kornilov Affair

10-13 September 1917

October Revolution

25 October 1917

Formation of the Cheka

December 1917

Lenin legalises abortion

1918

Lunacharsky's appointed Commissar for Enlightenment

1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

March 1918

Romanovs are murdered

July 1918

Fanny Kaplan’s failed assassination of Lenin

August 1918

Civil War ends in Red Victory

March 1921

Kronstadt Rebellion

March 1921

10th Party Congress bans factionalism and introduces the NEP

March 1921

Union of Militant Godless is established

1921

Stalin becomes General Secretary

March 1922

The Scissor Crisis threatens the Soviet economy

1923

The USSR is created

December 1922

Official Implementation of the Constitution of the USSR

1924

Lenin dies

21 of January 1924

Lenin’s funeral

27 of January 1924

Stalin announces “Socialism in One Country”

December 1924

Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev are expelled from the Politburo

1926

First Five-year Plan begins

1928

Trotsky is deported and exiled (after his internal exile in 1928)

1929

Stalin expels Bukharin from the Politburo

1929

Holodomor kills millions in Ukraine

1932

Decree on History Teaching introduced

1934

Sergei Kirov is assasinated

1 December 1934

Stalin’s new family code is issued

May 1936

First Show Trial or Trial of Zinoviev and Kamenev

August 1936

Second Show Trial or Trial of Pyatakov and Radek

January 1937

Great Terror begins

1938

Third Show Trial or Bukharin and Rykov Trial

March 1938

Stalin signs the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact

August 1939

Operation Barbarossa Occurs

June 1941

Stalin issues Order 270

1941

Stalin’s speech on the Great Patriotic War

3 July 1941

Industrial relocation from Moscow to east of the Urals

1 October 1941

Lend-Lease begins

March 1941

Stalin issues Order 227 (“Not on step back”)

1942

Siege of Stalingrad won by the USSR

February 1943

Tehran Conference

November 1943

Soviets recapture Kiev

6 November 1943

Soviets enter Berlin

23 April 1945

Berlin surrenders

2 May 1945

First atomic bomb dropped on iroshima

6 August 1945

Yalta Conference

February 1945

Potsdam Conference

July-August 1945

Long Telegram sent by George F. Kennan outlining the idea of containment

1946

Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain speech

5 March1946

Truman Doctrine

12 March 1947

Marshall Plan was proposed

June 1947

Marshall Plan was implemented

April 3 1948

Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) was founded

1947

The Berlin Blockade begins

24 June 1948

The Berlin Blockade ends

12 May 1949

NATO is established

1949

Soviet test their first atomic bomb

1949

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is formed (Treaty of Paris)

1951

Stalin dies

1953

The European Defence Force is proposed and fails

1954

The Warsaw pact is established

1955

Khrushchev officially becomes leader of the USSR

1956

Hungarian Uprising

1956

Treaty f Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC)

1957

The Berlin Wall is built

August 1961

Checkpoint Charlie Incident

October 1961

Nuclear Test ban Treaty Signed

1963

Charles de Gaulle vetoes Britain joining the EEC

1963

Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as leader of the USSR

1964

Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine established

1968

Richard Nixon Elected

1969

Helmut kohl becomes leader of West Germany

1969

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I) is signed

1972

Helsinki Accords signed by 33 countries

1975

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

1979

Ronald Reagan elected

1980

Constantin Chernenko dies

10 March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the USSR

11 March 1985

Schengen Agreement promises to remove internal borders

1985

Glasnost and Perestroika officially introduced

1986

Hungary opens its border to the Wst

May 1989

Soviets withdraw for Afghanistan

1989

Berlin Wall Falls

9 November 1989

Eastern Bloc Nations begin leaving Soviet influence

1989

East Germans express support for Helmut Kohl

March 1990

Yugoslavia begins to disintegrate

1990

Two + Four Talks

September 1990

Yeltsin declares Russia Sovereign

June 1991

Croatia declares Independence

25 June 1991

Slovenia declares Independence (Start of the 10 day Slovenian War of Independence)

29 June 1991

End of the 10 day Slovenian War of Independence

7 July 1991

Brioni Agreement

July 1991

Communist hardliners protest Gorbachev’s reforms and kidnap him

August 1991

The Soviet Union formally dissolves with the resignation from Mikhail Gorbachev

25 December 1991

Bosnia declares independence

February 1992