DATES
ANOTHER NAME
ACRONYMS & WHO'S WHO
LET'S HAVE A PARTY
IF...THEN...
100

January 22, 1905

Bloody Sunday -  massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators 

100

Czar's Residence

Winter Palace

100

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

100

This party split into these two groups → Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Social Democratic Labour Party

100

If Lenin took over Russia from the provisional government then ... (3 things)

 - Overthrew the provisional government;
-  withdrew from WWI;
-  seized industries and peasant farms

200

1894

Nicholas II became czar

200

St. Petersburg

Petrograd

200

NEP

New Economic Plan

200

leader of the Bolsheviks

Lenin

200

IF The Czar allowed less representatives from the peasants than the upper classes thus changing the election laws, Then...

the DUMA was weakened

300

December 1922

When the USSR was formed

300

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy

Triple Alliance

300

1900s - wanted revolution among the workers and peasants

Social Revolutionaries

300

full name of the political party that controlled the USSR

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

300

If Lenin introduced the NEP, then...

- controlled the economy by taking over banking, foreign trade, heavy industry and transportation.
- small business and peasants could still control their own businesses or farms.  

400

Feb 1904 to Sept 1905

Russo-Japanese War

400

Moscow

Capital of the USSR

400

1900s - Liberal constitutionalist wanted

wanted a parliamentary government

400

Czar's Holy Man

Grigori Rasputin

400

If Russia was made up of FOUR republics then....

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Belarus
Transcaucasia - (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia)
Ukraine

500

August 1, 1914

Germany declare war on Russia

500

Russia, France and Britain

Triple Entente

500

Triple Alliance

Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy

500

Republics in Transcaucasia

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

500

IF Czar Nicholas removed capable executives and replaced them with weak, unpopular officials which seemed to cripple the war for Russia, THEN....

the educated population of Russia oppose the Czar

600

March 15, 1917

Czar Nicholas II steps down (abdicated his throne)

600

fully elected lawmaking body introduced by the Czar

DUMA

600

Russia, France and Britain

Triple Entente

600

1900s - revolution among the city workers

Marxists

600

If the Russian people suffered from a shortage of food, fuel and housing during the WWI, then....

the railway was being used by the military during the war