Dates Flashcards

1
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Accession if Alexander ii

A

1855

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2
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Defeat in Crimean war

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1856

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3
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Emancipation

A

1861

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4
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Committee of Ministers

A

1861

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5
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Finnish Parliament

A

1863

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6
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Polish revolt

A

1863

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7
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1st Ukraine censorship decree

A

1863

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8
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Zematvo

A

1864

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9
Q

Legal reforms

A

1864

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10
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Censorship regulations eased

A

1865

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11
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Finnish constitution

A

1865

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12
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First assassination attempt of Alexander ii

A

1866

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13
Q

Local Urban Dumas

A

1870

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14
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Growth of opposition

A

1874-81

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15
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2nd Ukraine censorship decree

A

1876

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16
Q

Russo-Turkish war

A

1877-78

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17
Q

Treaty of San Stefano

A

3rd March1878

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18
Q

Congress of Berlin

A

1878

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19
Q

Okhrana established

A

1880

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20
Q

Constitutional proposals

A

1881

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21
Q

Assassination of Alexander ii

A

1881

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22
Q

Peasant land banks

A

1882

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23
Q

Failed assassination attempt of Alexander iii

A

1887

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24
Q

Land captains

A

1889

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25
Q

Famine in 17 of Russia 39 provinces

A

1881

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26
Q

Wittes great spurt

A

1892

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27
Q

Accession of Nicholas ii

A

1894

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28
Q

Formation of social Democrats

A

1898

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29
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Formation of Socialist revolutionaries

A

1901

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30
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SDs split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

A

1903

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31
Q

Russo-Japanese war

A

1904-

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32
Q

Bloody Sunday

A

1905

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33
Q

Nicholas ii rev.

A

1905

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34
Q

Finland given full autonomy

A

1905

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35
Q

October manifesto

A

1905

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36
Q

First National duma

A

1906

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37
Q

Fundimental laws

A

April 1906

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38
Q

Stolypin reforms

A

1906-11

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39
Q

Four Dumas met

A

1906-14

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40
Q

Ww1

A

1914-18

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41
Q

February rev.

A

1917

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42
Q

Soviet order No. 1

A

1st March 1917

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43
Q

Lenins return

A

April 1917

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44
Q

Kerensky offensive

A

June 1917

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45
Q

Kornilov affair

A

26th August - 1st September 1917

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46
Q

Bolsheviks take control of Moscow and Petrograd Soviets

A

September 1917

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47
Q

Kerensky closed Pravda and Ivestiya

A

23rd October 1917

48
Q

Bolsheviks seizure of power

A

24th-27th October 1917

49
Q

October Revolution

A

1917

50
Q

Cheka established

A

Decber 1917

51
Q

Civil war and war communism

A

1917-21

52
Q

Constitutent assembly

A

1918

53
Q

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

A

3rd March 1918

54
Q

Constitution created the RSFSR

A

1918

55
Q

Russo-Polish war

A

1920

56
Q

Kronstadt rising: famine and economic collapse

A

1921

57
Q

How many died between 1918-1921

A

8 millik

58
Q

NEP

A

1921-7

59
Q

Pork Mutiny

A

1922

60
Q

New Constitution creates the USSR

A

1924

61
Q

Lenins death

A

1924

62
Q

Struggle for power to replace Lenin

A

1922-9

63
Q

Stalin in power

A

1927-53

64
Q

First five year plan and collectivisation

A

1928-9

65
Q

Holodomor

A

1932-3

66
Q

Famine under Stalin

A

1932

5 million died

67
Q

Formation of NKVD

A

1934

68
Q

The Great Terror/Purges (reprised post ww2)

A

1934-40

69
Q

Stalin constitution

A

1936

70
Q

Winter war

Who was it between?

A

1939-40

Russia v Finland

71
Q

Great Patriotic war

A

1941-5

72
Q

NKGB replaces NKVD

A

1943

73
Q

MGB and MVD form. Who did they replace?

A

1946

NKGB

74
Q

Censorship tightened under Stalin. Famine in Ukraine

A

1946

75
Q

Leningrad purge

A

1949

76
Q

Formation of Comecon

What was it?

A

1949

Economic organisation led by the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc

77
Q

Discovery of Doctors plot announced

A

1953

78
Q

Beria executed

A

1953

79
Q

Khrushchev rise to power

A

1954-6

80
Q

Virgin Land

A

1954

81
Q

KGB

A

1954

MVD turned into the normal body

82
Q

Khrushchev met with Tito (defrosting of relationship with Yugoslavia)

A

1955

83
Q

Warsaw pact, what was it?

A

May 1955

Soviet military defence treaty

84
Q

First H bomb

A

1955

85
Q

20th Party Congress and secret speech

A

Feb 19

86
Q

Cominform ended

A

Sept. 1956

87
Q

Polish Thaw

A

October 1956

88
Q

Hungarian uprising

A

Oct. - Nov. 1956

89
Q

Sovnarkoz reform

A

1957

Organisations to manage seperate economic regions

90
Q

Sputnik launch

A

1957

91
Q

8 hour working day

A

1958

92
Q

Khrushchev visits America

A

1959

93
Q

Khrushchev maize growing campaign launched

A

1959

94
Q

Shoe banging on table

A

1960

95
Q

Berlin wall

A

1961

96
Q

Workers riots in Novochercassk

A

1962

97
Q

Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962

98
Q

Test treaty ban signed by US, UK, and Soviet

Increased tensions with China

A

1963

99
Q

Agricultural crisis generated by soil erosion in the Virgin Lands

A

1963

100
Q

Fall of Khrushchev

A

1964

101
Q

Yalta

A

February 1945

102
Q

July 1945

A

Potsdam

103
Q

Truman Doctrine

A

March 1947

104
Q

Cominform

A

September 1947

To counter the West’s offer for help

105
Q

Start of Berlin Blockade

A

June 1948

106
Q

Nato

A

April 1949

107
Q

May 1949

A

End of Berlin Blockade

108
Q

Korean war began

A

June 1950

109
Q

Hungarian revolution

A

October 1956

110
Q

1956

A

Feb, - secret speech
Sept-cominform ended
Oct - Polish thaw
Oct -Nov. - Hungarian

111
Q

First man in space

A

12th April 1961

112
Q

Krishchev demands the West leave Berlin

A

June 1961

113
Q

End of Korean war

A

July 1953

114
Q

End of indio China war

A

1954

115
Q

Support signing if the Austrian State treaty

A

May 1955