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The Beginning of Kishinev Pogrom
When Russian and Moldovan citizens of Bessarabian provincial capital of Kishniev launched a violent attack against Jewish quarter of the city on Orthodox Easter Sunday, destroying much of the neighbourhood and killing dozens. -
Russo-Japanese War
Russia continued to encroach upon Manchuria despite protest from other nations. Japan finally took military action and on the 8th and 9th of February 1904, attacked the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur -
Outbreak of World War 1
Russia sided immediately with Britain, France, and Serbia against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The United States did not join the war until 1917, but did supply the Russians, and the other Allies, with war materiel. Many Americans also contributed individually to war relief for Russia. -
Russian Revolution of 1917
War-time shortages and continuing discontent with a monarchy that continued to resist reform led to a series of large strikes and public protests by 1917. Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on March 2 leaving Russia in the hands of a moderate Provisional Government that was frequently challenged by the newly formed Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and other more radical revolutionaries. -
The Soviet Union
Soviet Union, in full Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik or Sovetsky Soyuz, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s) -
Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact
The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed this non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939, agreeing not to declare war on each other. Following the German invasion of Northern Europe and France in 1940, President Roosevelt encouraged the Department of State to engage in negotiations with the Soviets to improve relations. -
German Invasion of the Soviet Union
The German military launched "Operation Barbarossa"-a full-scale invasion of the Soviet Union that negated the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In response, the United States offered Lend-Lease assistance to the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb
On September 22, President Truman announced that the Soviet Union had detonated its first atomic bomb. -
The End of Kishinev Pogrom
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Stalin’s Death
The Soviet Union's hard-line leader, Joseph Stalin, died on the 5th of March 1953 -
Sputnik and the Space Race
On the 5th of October 1957, the Soviets beat the United States into space by successfully launching the first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. A month later, the Soviets sent up another satellite, this time carrying a dog. The United States did not launch its first satellite, Explorer I, until the 31st of January 1958. -
Sino-Soviet Split
A Chinese Communist Party newspaper accused the Soviet leadership of “revisionism.” -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
After a US bombing run against the Cuban Air Force, a group of 1500 armed exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs on the Southern coast. As the invasion faltered, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy called off the airstrikes . -
Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Soviet Union severed diplomatic relations with Israel. -
Friendship with Somali
The Soviet Union signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Somalian Government -
Angolan War of Independence
A transitional unity government, consisting of the National Liberations Front of Angola, the Soviet-backed MPLA, and the Maoist UNITA, took office under the terms of the Alvor Agreement. -
Soviet-Afghan War
The last of the Soviet troops left the country -
Bulgarian Communists
The Bulgarian Communist Party repealed its constitutional supremacy. -
The End of the Soviet Union
A referendum on the future of the Soviet Union was held, with nearly 70% of voters supporting the renewed Union of Sovereign States. Later on in the year, the Moldavian S.S.R. became the Republic of Moldova, Boris Yeltsin was elected the presidency of the Russia, the Estonian Government declared its independence, the Latvian Government declared its independence, Moldova declared independence, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan declared independence and the Soviet Union disbanded, Blur’s Leisure was out. -
The 2000s
In the year 2000, Vladimir Putin was elected governor of Chechen with 53% of the vote. 2004 saw Putin won re-election to a second term, earning 71% of the vote and the Beslan School Hostage Crisis. 2008, Vladimir Putin becomes Russia’s Prime minister. -
The 2010s
2012, Vladimir Putin got 63.6% of the votes for the Presidential Election of that year. 2018, Putin and Trump became friends again...somewhat and the World Cup was hosted in Russia. And 2019? Well, we’ll have to wait and see.