The Shah
The event that caused great change politically in the state of Iran
What is the Iranian Revolution?
The out-of-touch leader of Imperial Russia, Characterised by his Autocratic viewpoints.
What is Tsar Nicholas?
The middle eastern state, with an Islamic government. This state is subject to controversy.
What is Iran?
a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
What is the Bolsheviks?
The event where nations took the sides of either the USA or the Soviet Union but never went to war.?
What is the Cold War?
A popular religious leader who kickstarted the revolution with his return
What is Ayatollah Khomeini
Tsar Nicholas's wife, bearing him 4 daughters and 1 son
What is Alexandra Feodorovna?
A legislation where land was redistributed, women were given more rights, Industries were privatised and more resources were put towards education
What is the White Revolution?
The conflict in which the State of Russia without warning invaded the State of Ukraine, both had been a part of the former USSR
What is the Russo-Ukranian war?
The war that took place in 1980, when Iraq without warning invaded Iran. The war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Iran-Iraq war?
The Islamic group that Mohammad Reza Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini were members of.
What is the Shia?
A secret police operating within Russia, Working for Tsar Nicholas II. Known for their brutal tactics and unethical methods.
What is the Okhrana?
The amount of time that Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spent exiled from the state of Iran
What is 14 years?
The Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. Made impotent because the expansion of power by Tsar Nicholas II
What is the Duma?
an event in which the people of a county, state, etc., vote for or against a law that deals with a specific issue
What is a Referendum?
The name of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's twin sister.
What is Ashraf Reza Pahlavi?
The official religious institute of imperialist Russia, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate.
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
The day when the Prime Minister nationalised the oil industry
What is 1953?
The date when Tsar Alexander III died, Passing the throne down to his son Nicholas.
What is 1894?
The event in 2015 where Iran promised to lay down some nuclear armaments in return for minimised trade embargoes and restrictions.
What is JCPOA?