Ancient Russia
Oleg
Trade Route: Scandinavia and Constantinople
leader that created trade route
Vladimir I
expansion of ancient russia
pagan religion to christian orthadoxy
U.S.S.R
Joseph Stalin
leader in WWII-never declared president
killing more people than Hitler
set up laber camps in Siberia
killed 10,000,000 russians
Vladamir Lenin
putting comunism into practice
Major Events
Signing of the Non-Agression Pact
-russia and germany would not fight one another
-1 year later 1941 germany broke the pact and invaded USSR
WWII
-beginning of the war on the axis side-fighting with Germany and Japan and Italy
-by end, switched sides and went with Great Britain, France and US
Cold War
Communism and Capitalism
communism USSR side-government
socialism-talking about fairness in the economy-USSR
capitalism US side
Joseph McCarthy
accussing hollywood stars and famous people of being communist
had a black book of names of people who could be communist
Space-New Fronteir
Russia wanted to show dominance by putting a ship into space-Sputnik
America was first to put person on moon
Bay of Pigs
JFK was president
failure of US-couldn't get Castro out of Cuba
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