HWS 23-24 Russia Chronological

Includes a bunch of semi-relevant events! To use, shuffle, pick a couple of terms (I recommend 5-15), then put them in order! the flashcard order is chronological :)

First Russians (Kievan Rus)

500 AC

Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev rules

978

Vladimir converts to eastern orthodox christianity

987

Mongols attack and destroy Kiev

1240

Russia falls behind the rest of the world

1300s-1400s

Ivan III (great) frees Russians from mongol rule

1480

Ivan IV (terrible) becomes Czar

1547

Ivan the Terrible leaves

1564

Michael Romanov elected Czar

1613

Peter the Great

1682

Russia begins to westernize and modernize

1700s

Catherine the Great

1762

Paul(son of catherine)

1796

Communism is founded by Karl Marx

1848

Alexander II frees the serfs

1861

Nicholas II and Alexandra

1894

World War I Starts

1914

Rasputin dies

1916

Russian monarchy ends

1917

Alexander Kerensky is prime minister

1917

Russian revolution and civil war

1917

WWI Ends

1918

Vladimir Lenin founds the Soviet Union

1922

Bolsheviks seize power

1923

Josef Stalin vs Leon Tronsky

1928

Stalin takes over

1928

WW2

1939

Leon Trosnky assasinated

1940

Cold War starts

1947

End of Stalins rule

1953

Nikita Khrushev

1955

Soviets launch Sputnik

Soviets launch Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite

Leonid Brezhnev

1964

Yura Andropov

1982

Konstantine Chemenko

1984

Mikhail Gorbachev (START treaties that limit nuclear weapons)

1985

Cold War ends

1989

Soviet Union collapses

1991

Boris Yeltsin (alcoholic)

1991

Vladimir Putin

2008