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Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
This was the final coronation in russia of a czar -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
A group of unarmed men was going to give a present to Tsar nicholas were fired on and killed by imperial soldiers -
World War I begins
Everyone had an ally so when two countries went to war everyone else got involved and the world went to war. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
Women were angry they had to wait in line for bread and started to protest and soon got men involved in it. -
The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
There was a food shortage which turned into a riot Nicholas II was forced to leave leaving the Bolsheviks in charge. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
After Russia was taken over Nicholas ll gave up power and was executed in fear that he would be rescued. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
Lenin returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take over the Russian Revolution -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
They planned to have peaceful protest but when armed protest broke out Lenin went into hiding and the other leaders were arrested. -
Russia withdraws from World War I
Russia dropped out of the war soon after the October Revolution of 1917 and then had a bloody civil war. -
Russian civil war begins
The communist were known as the reds those who opposed them were the whites and they wanted to restore the monarchy. There was also green who were peasants who didn't want nether the red or white to win.The red beat both greens and the whites. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
They formed an army and called themselves the communist Party and they established six self governing soviet republics. -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Fearing foreign invasion the capital was moved to moscow -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Czar his wife and there five children and all in prison with them were beat and shot to death. -
Russian civil war ends
In October 1922 the provisional government was overthrown and the Civil war ended -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
Also known as the Soviet Union the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism -
Lenin suffers second stroke
He was the leader of the Russian army. He died at the age of 53 after suffering 3 strokes -
Lenin dies
Lenin died after three fatal strokes
